Tag: Microsoft

Benchmarking Microsoft Office’s PowerPoint Application Packages: Microsoft App-V Vs. Symantec Workspace Virtualization

Introduction Benchmarking virtualization products is an addictive game. Below we use SpyStudio to compare how long it takes to load a 21 slides PowertPoint presentation, with text and graphics, in three environments: Microsoft App-V 5 (MNT), Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.4.1603, and natively. We measure the time elapsed until the slides show up on the GUI. […]

Open source software

Everyone likes something for free, but open source is free as in freedom not as in beer. Lots of companies use open source software and many put a lot back into the open source world but just how much do they put back? It is impossible to find a definitive answer to this so we […]