Droplet Migrates any x86 App to Windows 11

Software compatibility will be one of your biggest obstacles when migrating to Windows 11. This blog highlights how Droplet can remove the software related barriers to migrating every application to Windows 11 and delivering them to the highest cyber accreditation standards.

Many organisations have turned to Droplet to overcome their software compatibility and cyber security concerns around their old unsupported, mission critical apps, and we’ve managed to migrate everything, including bespoke in-house apps written for Win7, onto Win11, all while adhering to Cyber Essentials Plus and NIS2 standards. What’s our secret?

What makes us stand out in the crowd?

On paper we’re a Linux based container which can securely deliver any x86 app to any operating system or cloud platform. What makes us unique and sets us apart is the way we deliver the apps via our NeverTrust™ network overlay architecture.

• When installed, we create a true isolation layer between our container and the operating system and hypervisor of the device you choose to install us on.
• We support Windows ~ MacOS ~ ChromeOS ~ Linux ~ Azure ~ AWS and Google Cloud and can sit on any hypervisor, you choose.
• We don’t require apps to be packaged and don’t use API’s or SDK’s which could potentially weaken our security posture and be an automatic failure on cyber essentials.
• Instead, applications are installed directly inside our container in the same manner that you would on a Windows desktop, install media, double click setup file, click next and install.
• Shortcuts are then created on the desktop and end users simply double click and open their apps in the same way they’ve done for years, no end user training required, we don’t change anything.
• Once apps are installed our NeverTrust™ model removes all admin rights from end users, whose only function is to launch an application, they can’t add, modify or delete an app.
• To prevent unauthorised access to your apps and mission critical data, our NeverTrust™ approach blocks all inbound traffic by default.
• We also control the paths in which both an application or end user can and can’t go, ensuring that nobody can breakout from within the container or an application.
• We then encrypt the path between the Droplet client and the Droplet server appliance (DSA) to military standards with quantum ready encryption coming next year.
• When a patch or update is sent to your device, only the device receives the update, anything inside the container is locked down, and isolated away from the network, preventing any potential conflicts and blue screens due to con-compatibility.

Our unique method of delivering apps to any operating system or cloud platform means that we successfully migrate any x86 app from WinXP ~ Win7 and Win10 to Win11 and deliver them to the highest cyber accredited standards including cyber essentials plus and NIS2.