Click-to-Run streaming for Office 2010 is official

The Microsoft Office Engineering Blog has just published a post confirming that click-to-run will be a method that Microsoft will offer for Office 2010 download/run/updates.  In August, after rumours of a click-to-run beta, I posted my thoughts about what this might mean.

This is great news, as it will really help to bring Application Virtualisation to the masses, and hopefully other vendors will follow Microsoft’s lead.

To re-state my previous thoughts,I wouldn’t be surprised if we see the concept of having Configuration Manager subscribe to vendor application streams, and re-deliver the apps to enterprise desktops using App-V.

On-premise re-packing and software update release might become as easy as Microsoft Updates has in recent years.  Hopefully!