The story: Desktop virtualization is grabbing the headlines, but a wave of acquisitions and new product releases point to success for application virtualization — and heralds a better way to manage ...

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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 ...

Last year, there was talk of how and when Microsoft might take its App-V client virtualization technology to the server. While there's still no publicly available timeline, Microsoft recently showed ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...