Recently, VMware announced that the beta of their application virtualization solution, codenamed Project Northstar, had reached the second beta. Even more recently, it was announced that VMware will be renaming Thinstall to ThinApp. All this justifies a look at this beta 2 it would seem.
One of the most obvious things to note when one first takes a look at Thinstall at it's current incarnation is the absolute lack of management tools. I was amazed at the fact that I actually needed to go into a folder in Program Files to find a batch file which I then would need to execute to generate the actual Thinstalled application. Well, as it turns out, I did not just sound like a bad idea to me but to VMware as well. In beta 2 of Project Northstar, a wizard is available to take you through the entire build process, including the creation of
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