A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on why you can't use App Streaming as a solution to deliver Windows applications to a Mac Operating System. The foundation statement is that isolation "changes" the execution of the Windows application, but the application remains a Windows app, so the execution machine operating system has to support running the app, or running the app under isolation is literally, a non-starter.
I have received a follow-up question that discusses running Windows 16-bit applications on Windows 64-bit systems. Before we all have the knee jerk reaction that says NO!, we need to think this through. The Win 64 platform cannot run 16 bit apps, any 16-bit apps, ever. So no matter how much you isolate them, they still don't run on the 64-bit system. Does this mean that it won't work? Probably.
The premise is that the application is really a 32-bit application that happens to be installed with an installation program that is a 16-bit program.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, App Streaming - 16 bit apps on 64 bit operating systems- The Citrix Blogs
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