I seem to remember a year ago, I said that if I were to design Windows 7 it would have built-in virtualization to provide perfect Windows XP compatibility. Guess what? It will. It's not often that my ...

One of the tools Microsoft developed to aid companies in transitioning from Windows XP to Windows 7 was a free virtualized copy of Windows XP. Once downloaded and installed, users with XP-specific ...

A common piece of advice runs through recent conversations with companies migrating to Windows 7: test early and often and don't be afraid of virtualization. Windows 7 adoption has certainly been on ...

A colleague of mine purchased a Windows 7 based notebook computer and found that some long-cherished applications (I believe he mentioned Lotus Agenda among others) wouldn't work in a Windows 7 ...

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 ...

Virtualization technology is invaluable in modern IT infrastructure. It’s also essential to create virtual machines or a network of virtual machines (VMs) when running alternate OSes or setting up a ...

The widespread Windows 7 RC release has meant many users attention turned to the OS' recently-announced Windows XP Mode, only to discover what Microsoft had warned from the start: many processors ...

Desktop virtualization is one of those technologies that confound the experts. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, along comes some interloping development to upset the apple cart. Most ...

Windows 7 officially ships on Thursday, which means end users and administrators running Windows XP (and to a lesser extent, Windows Vista) have some interesting decisions to make. To help you make ...