Multitasking is a term familiar to all of us in the tech world. The ability to juggle multiple applications or PCs is seen as a benefit. But it’s not without its challenges. Those of us who run many ...

Citrix XenDesktop puts the core desktop PC components, including the operating system, the application, and the settings, into a desktop image that can be run off a server, said Calvin Hsu, principal ...

Do you mostly use browsers for all your computing needs? By using virtual desktops instead of browser tabs, you get real ...

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

Early in 2006, Forrester Research Inc. analysts said that the desktop virtualization technology of the day was “the future of the corporate PC.” In August of the following year, Gartner ...

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 ...

Microsoft offers new licensing and technology to spur virtual desktop usage In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying ...

In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

Virtualization is moving to every connected device allowing for new levels of portability and management of virtual images and servers. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it ...