Softricity now part of Microsoft.
Over in
his blog, Alessandro Perilli notes that possibly the worst kept secret in the virtualization rumour mill is now official. We all knew it was happening. We all knew it would be announced soon, but now it's
actually a done deal. Microsoft have acquired
Softricity.
So what now? Alessandro suggests that Microsoft may be looking to wrap this up into a "Microsoft Live" product for app streaming. Certainly this would fit nicely into a subscription model for those apps, wouldn't it?
I personally wonder if we'll see this applied more as a deployment tool. You've got some nice features here to make deployment very painless, to apply a limited level of sandboxing, and to make it easy for someone who works in more than one place to take their applications with them without needing to carry an entire computer around.
Official press release