The release of Microsoft’s Windows 7 should increase adoption of desktop virtualization technology, but won’t necessarily cause a massive shift from physical to virtual desktops, a VMware executive ...

The virtualization leader says its free software can ease the migration from Windows XP to 7. But, like a product from rival Parallels, the approach raises licensing issues. During her years at CNET ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

Two patches that shipped by Microsoft last month are apparently causing heartache for VMware customers. It seems the patches kill connections between VMware View Connection Servers and Windows 7, ...

VMware has upgraded its ThinApp application virtualization software to enable migration of applications from older versions of Windows to Windows 7. VMware ThinApp 4.5, announced today, is designed to ...

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system that’s emulated within another operating system. You could run Windows within a MacBook as a virtual machine, or even Windows within Windows. Because of ...