Last November, Microsoft announced the acquisition of FSLogix. Earlier this year, the platform was made free for all users. Now, the company plans to leverage FSLogix to speed up Office 365.
FSLogix is a next-generation app-provisioning platform that reduces the resources, time and labor required to support virtualization. The tech giant referred to FSLogix as a “partner” back in September’s WVD announcement. FSLogix employs some clever caching technology to cut down on the time needed to support virtual desktops while boosting performance.
If executed, the new tentacle of the Windows giant reckons that “near-native or better performance” can be delivered when running the likes of Outlook, Office, and OneDrive.
The container tech of FSLogix has now been integrated with Microsoft’s Office lineup on virtual environments and comes free with Microsoft 365 or Windows 10 subscriptions (E3, E5 and so on). You do, however, still have to actually pay for those subscriptions.
In other news, Microsoft is also improving the experience under Windows Server 2019. OneDrive Files-On-Demand is also scheduled to be launched for virtualized Office apps users in the next few months meaning a theoretical drop in storage needs (as long as users don’t try to sync the entirety of their shiny, new 2TB OneDrive folders). Windows Server 2019 will also support running Office 365 ProPlus.
The Redmond, Washington based company also said that they are making Office 365 a better-virtualized citizen by improving the increasingly bloated Outlook app to cut the number of default synced folders and making the Inbox sync before the Calendar.
