*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's Desktop Optimization Pack is a subscription offering for Software Assurance maintenance contract customers that wraps together technologies from recent Microsoft acquisitions, including ...

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'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 ...

Virtualization watchers have speculated for years when Microsoft would throw a low-cost blow at arch-rival VMware in the desktop virtualization fight. This week, Microsoft delivered the punch via a ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Discover the Windows 11 Pro features every professional should enable in 2026, including BitLocker, Hyper-V, Sandbox, and ...