Web applications should be platform independent because their are standards like HTML which can be interpreted by any browser out there. They should, but many web applications are not true web applications. They use components like ActiveX or special plug-ins for the browser. Siebel is one good example for that. Loads of companies invested in [...]

Back in my Desktop Specialist days I’ve created several beginner videos which explain the different functions in ThinApp. For example they are about AppLink, Entry Points, ThinReg, sbmerge and also about the isolation modes and the virtual file system. Unfortunately they are only available in the German language but if someone speaks it, please enjoy. [...]

My colleague Raymond van’t Hag wrote an article about the ThinApp basics on his blog bright-streams.com. If you haven’t worked with ThinApp yet, you should definitely check his article. By the way bright-streams.com is Raymond’s blog, dedicated to VMware View & ThinApp.

Yesterday, VMware released ThinApp 4.5 which adds support for new operating systems and additional features. The What’s New document can give you an insight.

Have you ever tried to run the same ThinApp application several times? No? Correct! It will not work. There is a way to do it and you’ll find the solution on the newest ThinApp blog article.

The new release of ThinApp (4.0.3) which follows the 4.0.2 release of March 2009 is now ready. It’s a maintenance release and there is no requirement to upgrade existing deployed ThinApp applications but it is recommended to use the version 4.0.3 to package new applications.