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Re:Docker for Mac and Windows Beta on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:39PM (#11355773)
ThinApp is really about packaging existing Windows desktop apps with the appropriate OS bits that the application needs. Then you can run that "thinapped app" on a different version of Windows or from a USB drive. Considered app level virtualization. #1 use case was to run IE6 based apps on newer Windows OS.