Abstracting of Apps

Microsoft just bought "Softricity" which does application virtualization which is what I've somewhat discussed before in virtualization news.

True virtualization is where underlying resource can be shared without disrupting the programs running in the higher level [i.e., OS on the HW or application on OS]. With Softricity, it seems to be able to pull off the "without disruption" part by allowing all kinds of applications to run without conflicting with others [all too often easy to do with DLL's in Windows].

The ideal is being OS independent but then that's the world of virtual machine....