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March 28, 2025

Virtual Application Delivery Is Set to Overtake Virtual Desktops

Gabe Knuth
Senior Analyst, End-user Computing & User Protection

Emily Marsh
Associate Research Director

Market Topics

Customer Experience End-user Computing Unified Communications & Collaboration

Historically, Windows has been the standard desktop environment for business devices because most organizations’ applications were Windows applications. This concept extended to desktop and application virtualization as well, and since the advent of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in the late 2000s, virtual workloads tended to be more desktop-focused than application-focused. Recent research by Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed that certain market forces are turning these trends on their head.

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