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InstallShield is once again revolutionizing software installations with
support for application virtualization with Microsoft App-V.
Now when you build a traditional MSI project, InstallShield can
simultaneously build it as a virtual App-V package. It can also
automatically modify your legacy MSIs to App-V packages. InstallShield
handles all the conversion work, so there’s no learning curve for developers
new to application virtualization.
To an end user, virtual applications appear and function just like
physically installed software. But virtual applications never get installed
on the client. Instead they run in their own isolated virtual containers –
which include registry entries, libraries, executables, and anything else
the application needs to run – completely separate from the operating
system. Because there’s no physical installation, there are no installation
or retirement problems and no application compatibility issues.
More and more software companies are delivering their applications as
virtual packages, including Microsoft. It provides Office 2010 as an App-V
package.
