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Spoon is a set of application virtualization

Application Virtualization

Application virtualization is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized application is not installed in...

and portable application creation

Portable application creators

Portable application creators allow the creation of portable applications . They usually use application virtualization.- Creators of independent portable applications :...

software products developed by Code Systems Corporation. It includes Spoon Studio and Spoon Server. They can package conventional software applications for Microsoft Windows to become portable application

Portable application

A portable application , sometimes also called standalone, is a computer software program designed to run independently from an operating system...

Spoon Studio

Spoon Studio (formerly Xenocode Virtual Studio) is an application virtualization tool that runs on Microsoft Windows. It packages software applications into portable applications, single executable files that can be run instantly on any Windows computer. It emulates only the operation system features that are necessary for applications to run. Virtualized portable applications run independently from other software, so there are no conflicts (such the DLL hell

DLL hell

In computing, DLL Hell is a term for the complications that arise when working with dynamic link libraries used with Microsoft Windows operating systems, particularly legacy 16-bit editions which all run in a single memory space....

phenomenon) between them and other programs.

Spoon.net

The official website of Spoon, spoon.net, also hosts virtualized applications including but not limited to productivity tools, games and different versions of famous web browsers such as Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

, Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...

and Opera

Opera (web browser)

Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,...

. These different versions of web browsers may be used by web developer

Web developer

A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over HTTP from a web server to a web browser....

s to test compatibility with older web browsers. The site formerly hosted previous versions of Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer

Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...

as well, but removed them on Microsoft's request.

Spoon Studio

Spoon.net

See also