Xenocode Upgrades Virtualization Program

Xenocode, the six-year-old, Seattle-based, lightweight application virtualization player full of Microsoft veterans, has updated its Virtual Application Studio authoring environment.

Its stuff is supposed to completely eliminate software installations and insulate Windows-based apps from conflicts and compatibility errors by isolating them from the hardware and operating system, treating them as moveable objects, emulating one core OS features and deploying them "instantly" over the Internet, intranets, USB drives and existing desktop management infrastructures such as Active Directory.

The upgrade, directed at administrators and developers, includes enhanced sandbox management for fine-grained control over application linking and communication, one-click import of MSI setups, ThinApp configurations and Novell AXT packages, and reportedly dozens of one-click templates for things like Office, OpenOffice, Firefox and IE.

The company claims thousands of followers.