Microsoft carries on faking it. The old tactic that is self-fulfilling prophecies is still being used not only to promote Silverlight (with lies and shills) but also to promote Microsoft's Linux-allergic virtualisation products. It's akin to "The Slog" because we previously saw the notorious Yankee Group and Burton Group (also for OOXML) producing what needs to seem like 'independent' analysis (Microsoft too jokes about the word "independent" and even puts it in scare quotes)
But MDOP buyers could easily have bought the bundle to install other components, and left Application Virtualization (formerly known as SoftGrid) untouched, pointed out Brian Madden, an independent virtualization technology analyst and blogger.
"Saying you've sold 6.5 million MDOP licenses is like claiming 40% of consumers are using Vista today," he said.