*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 ...

Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

Welcome to my blog series on the Virtualization Center where we will explore, unravel, define and compose the future of virtualization throughout our computing environment. To begin the series, let’s ...

In move toward virtualization, Microsoft plans to integrate Kidaro's management technology into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance Microsoft continues to step up its ...

Big companies often acquire small companies and their products for the underlying technologies, and Microsoft is no exception. The strategy is particularly effective when the target is one of a ...

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in ...

Microsoft on Monday updated its plans for new virtualization software and said it will expand its lineup through an acquisition. The company will begin testing its hypervisor software, developed under ...

One of the big questions in technology for the last three years has been how end users will adopt desktop virtualization. The answer, at least from some early adopters, seems to be “how won’t we do it ...

Nowadays, we all look for the latest software, sleek interfaces, and web apps, and it’s easy to forget the unsung heroes of productivity that have quietly stood the test of time. Microsoft had a big ...