All about application delivery

we just had a road show and I demonstrated shims and we had the feeling, that shims are still very unknown in the market. Ever wondered why your old application (game) runs on a new operating system? It is mostly because Microsoft created a shim for it and included it into the operating system. What is a shim? A shim will redirect certain api calls of an application. With this technology you can for example redirect the saving of ini files from c:\windows to %appdata% or you can lie to an application and tell it that it is running on windows xp instead of windows 7. There are round about 6000 basic shims (a lot for games) that are also updated via windows update. You can build own shims with the application compatibility toolkit. More about shims soon here.