Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday — the first time Microsoft has relied on ...

Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In words of Microsoft itself, whether virtualization is an important component of your existing ...

Microsoft finally released its latest, and probably its last version of Virtual PC into the wild. The desktop virtualization platform is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and is supported ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

As much as I love Linux, there are always one or two apps that I simply have to run under Windows for whatever reason. Sure, you can use wine, Crossover Office, or run Windows in a virtual machine, ...

Microsoft recently made a move to consolidate servers and workstations running Windows, as it consolidated the partitioning market for Intel machines. It acquired many of the assets of Connectix, ...

I tried to install Microsoft Virtual PC on my laptop today. The website forced me to download some verification program. I installed it and now it still won't let me download the stupid program. Has ...

Commentary--The gathering consensus among the tech cognoscenti is that virtualization, a technology born on mainframes, is inevitably going to sweep the IT world. But they also assume that Microsoft ...