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Research Brief: Virtual Application Delivery Is Set to Overtake Virtual Desktops
Research Brief
Mar 27, 2025
by
Gabe Knuth, Emily Marsh, Enterprise Strategy Group Research
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.