The Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) technology is used for virtualizing applications.

Originally, this solution was known as Soft-Grid and it was developed by Softricity, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 and its name was changed to App-V.

App-V enables applications to be deployed to any supported client from a publishing server. With App-V, it is not necessary to perform a local installation of the applications because the applications are streamed to the end users either on demand or pre-installed in a local cache.

An App-V application is contained in a bubble. In this situation, the application does not directly make any changes to the underlying operating system's file system or Windows registry.

Users obtain access to the virtualized application by using the App-V client, which is installed locally on the user's machine. The user experience is similar to the traditional locally installed application, as the extensions for the application...