Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of centralized management of applications and desktop preferences without requiring configuration of client-side operating systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a rich client device includes accessing an application installed on a server, and executing the application from the rich client device without installing the application on the rich client device (e.g., that may mean that an operating system of the rich client device is not modified to perform the function calls between the application and the operating system) when requested by a user of the rich client device through a binary module (e.g., the binary module may include required resources between the application and the operating system including a file system data, a Dynamic-Link library (DLL) data, etc.) of the server that emulates a set of function calls between the application and an operating system of the rich client device.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of centralized management of applications and desktop preferences without requiring configuration of client-side operating systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a rich client device includes accessing an application installed on a server, and executing the application from the rich client device without installing the application on the rich client device (e.g., that may mean that an operating system of the rich client device is not modified to perform the function calls between the application and the operating system) when requested by a user of the rich client device through a binary module (e.g., the binary module may include required resources between the application and the operating system including a file system data, a Dynamic-Link library (DLL) data, etc.) of the server that emulates a set of function calls between the application and an operating system of the rich client device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of an unintrusive plug and play application virtualization platform is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes capturing dependencies of an application program associated with a host system, directly replicating to a removable device the application program, a desktop environment of the host system, and the dependencies and resurrecting the dependencies to run the application program under the desktop environment agnostic to a guest operating system (OS) of a guest system while the removable device is coupled to the guest system. The method may also include duplicating a desktop element of the host system to the desktop environment of the removable device. In addition, the method may include storing a user name and a password associated with the removable device to access the desktop environment when the removable device is coupled to the guest system.