(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 ...

*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 ...

Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

Formerly called SoftGrid Application Virtualization, App-V 4.5 is Microsoft's attempt to push application virtualization into the mainstream. App-V's key benefits involve streaming applications from ...

Microsoft's Application Virtualization scales to more users, has enhanced security and more language support, and comes bundled with other software management tools Microsoft is improving its popular ...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Noting two evolving areas of software licensing, Microsoft is pondering how to license when multiple instances of an application are run on a single computer, but is not eyeing a ...

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 ...

Microsoft launched an open source application platform called Radius that works with its own Azure cloud -- and that of archrival Amazon Web Services (AWS). The project's GitHub repo explains: "Radius ...

Parallels Inc. today released a new version of its Windows/Linux desktop virtualization software, saying it should be able to run some applications as much as eight times faster than its prior version ...

When you’re auto giant BMW, with 24 production sites in 13 countries, you’re going to have your share of important business applications. 1,000 apps to be more precise. Managing and deploying these ...