For months, the industry has been calling on Microsoft to ease restrictions forcing customers to use only the priciest versions of Windows Vista for desktop virtualization. It was not surprising, then ...

At VMworld in Las Vegas, the talk was all about the free release of Redmond's hypervisor product. Plus, another executive departs the virtualization software company. Brett writes regular technology ...

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 ...

Here at Virtualization & Cloud Review we've looked at the frankly terrible spot VMware customers have found themselves in lately here, here and here. In this article I'll lay out the options you have ...

In its latest attack against VMware, Microsoft depicts its rival's virtualization products as a redundant separate layer that sits between hardware and the OS. David Greschler, director of Microsoft ...

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 ...

Click image for full-sized view. Microsoft executives made their comments during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Los Angeles. Several of those executives were ...

The VMware Workstation product, used to host virtual machines on client devices, is getting support for Windows hypervisor, which will unlock the use of various Microsoft technologies that are ...

“It is an entirely new service ... we have rearchitected the preview to focus on a single-tenant user experience and our first-party technology,” Microsoft explained. Microsoft this week quietly made ...

VMware and Microsoft are working on a new cloud partnership, which was quietly teased in December. And this could help Microsoft as it seeks to overthrow Amazon's lead in cloud computing. That's ...

Microsoft has clarified how licensing for its current version of Windows Server works when paired with virtualization software. However, customers may face a whole new set of licensing rules once the ...

VMware, the incumbent power in the blossoming realm of virtualization, has accused Microsoft of using foul play to promote its own competing products. In a white paper published Friday, the EMC ...