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Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack

October 17, 2006

Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement tools from DesktopStandard, and the remote repair tools from Wintenals. For this price you could not get even the tools from DesktopStandard, the backend for the SoftGrid used to run about $15...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: , , , , ,

Two More Vista Tools - Group Policy Docs and Standard User Mode Testing Tool

September 27, 2006

Two revisions to some previous tools make the list of downloads today. The first one is the step-by-step Vista deployment guide. In this one they have added more group policy documentation, including some other new or revised docs. The second one is for testing applications in standard user mode, or non-admin. This tool will help you determine if an application is going to cause you headaches when the user is no longer running with admin rights, in Vista even the admin runs most things without admin...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , ,