Everyone likes to try new and shiny technology toys like the Windows 7 beta, but when the price is having to replace your existing operating system, that’s too much for most people. That’s when being ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We expect to see a significant amount of deployment [of virtual desktops] on Windows 7 from CIOs looking for reduced costs in deploying applications on Windows 7," says Scott Woodgate, the director ...

As promised, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday launched the beta of “XP Mode,” the Windows 7 compatibility add-on that runs Windows XP applications in a virtual machine. XP Mode followed hard on the heels of ...

VirtualBox, the free and open-source virtual machine manager, just got another update. VirtualBox 7.2 just arrived with better ARM host and guest support, interface improvements, and more. First, ...

I have a piece of software that doesn't support Windows Server but it supports Windows 7 or 8. I want to build a 4 CPU (AMD Opteron 6000) system for this software to run its computational threads on.

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

I've been on a bit of a kick lately, trying to run Windows apps on Linux through novel solutions like WinApps and WinBoat. These tools rely on virtualization and FreeRDP to bring full Windows apps to ...