*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

VMware is by far the market leader for server virtualization, with competitors Microsoft and Citrix far behind. But when one expands the market to include application virtualization, the race gets ...

It's been almost a year since Microsoft completed the acquisition of Softricity, Inc. and received the application virtualization technology of SoftGrid. And since that time, there really hasn't been ...

With a host of software and manufacturing partners in tow, Microsoft held its “Get Virtual Now” launch event Monday. It was the official coming-out party for the much talked-about Windows Server 2008 ...

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's use is for very basic things: surf the internet, watch videos, play music, etc, so it's nothing special about it at all. However, I found a 800 MB ...

Microsoft’s virtualization strategy is expected to take center stage during the second week of Microsoft’s TechEd conference series in Orlando. At TechEd North America 2008 IT Professionals, Microsoft ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

Network World Senior Editor John Fontana has been all over Microsoft’s annual Management Summit Conference in Las Vegas this week. In two days, he has already filed a handful of stories on Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft announced some new tools today for MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) customers. Beta versions are now available of an updated App-V 5.0 (Application Virtualization), and a new tool ...

Network World’s Tom Henderson and Rand Dvorak published Part II on their series about virtualization technologies. In Part II, Taming The Virtual Beast, the examine products that help you manage and ...