This is an official - VMware is excited to announce the acquisition of Thinstall a complementary virtualization solution provider as press released announce yesterday. Mean that VMware would take another major step forward in effort to change the way we use and manage desktop computing.

What is Thinstall?

Thinstall is an Application Virtualization Platform that enables complex software to be delivered as self-contained EXE files which can run instantly with zero installation from any data source. The core of Thinstall VS is the Virtual Operating System, a small light-weight component which is embedded with each “Thinstalled” application.

For an example, you can easily install Microsoft Visio in one of the Windows desktop machine and run Microsoft Visio from another machine without any painful. Listen to 59 minutes Thinstall product overview for more information.