Desktop and Application virtualization are two different methods that allow software to be provided to users via on-premise or cloud resources. While both let you run software running on virtual machines in a data center, you interact with each one differently. This page is to help explain the differences between the Engineering Virtual Labs Software options.
Application
This option allows you to launch only the application that you need, and allow it to run in a similar way as if it were running on your machine. The software is still running in the data center on another computer, but the Graphical User Interface of the software is passed to your machine, so you can interact with and use the software. The application icon below shows an example of Matlab, where you should see the actual icon for the software you want to use.
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