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*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 execs have been talking up the concept of application virtualization for years. It now seems they're ready to put their roadmaps where their mouths have been. Microsoft's App-V team is ...

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of tools available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers that enables IT admins to manage Microsoft environments more effectively.

Over the last few years, I've read and listened to numerous complaints from people about Microsoft not being fully invested in virtualization, that the software giant was simply sticking their big toe ...

Have you heard? Thin is “in” again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin client computing are being ...

Microsoft, as well as VMware and Citrix's XenSource division, see a fertile greenfield for virtualization. "It's early--incredibly less than 5 percent of servers are virtualized, and even less on the ...

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 hate to say I told you so, but, I told you so. It was so gratifying reading John Fontanta’s guest blog post about the editors meeting with Shanen Boettcher, GM of Windows product management. Shanen ...

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 ...

(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 ...