One of the challenges faced by IT managers in upgrading their desktop fleets to Windows 7 is in supporting older Web applications that only run on Internet Explorer v6, rather than the pre-installed IE 8 that comes with Windows 7. It isn’t a simple fix.

I show how three products — VMware’s ThinApp, Symantec’s Workspace Virtualization, and InstallFree Bridge Enterprise — can handle this situation in a story for ITworld here.