Many a mobile warrior is familiar with U3 and applications on a USB stick. These portable apps are geared to work right from a USB flash drive that you carry around: just plug the drive into a PC and away you go. Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft is nearly ready to announce their U3 replacement and it’s called StartKey.The concept is similar to the original U3 approach, but with a Microsoft-twist. StartKey will have a Windows look and feel and will bring much of your Windows environment with you: your desktop wallpaper, icons, contacts and more. You can do much of the same (more, in fact) with MojoPac for free as it brings your entire Windows environment with you on a USB device. Using MojoPac, you essentially run a virtual Windows environment on a host PC. Should be interesting to see how StartKey differs.
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