Recent talk regarding a potential spin-off of HP’s PC business drove a heated debate about whether other technology firms might do the same. Will the PC continue to provide value to end users or has ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

VMware has released new versions of its desktop virtualization products for the Mac and PC that bring support for Windows 10 and an enhanced graphics engine. The company’s Fusion line of software that ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

These days, everyone is excited about the promise of PC virtualization, but with so many different flavors out there, it’s hard to know where to start. The idea of reducing a fully functional ...

A couple of months ago, I reported that Microsoft was looking like it would announce its Cloud PC service this summer. It now seems like next week, the week of July 12, is the announcement date, based ...

Near the end of almost every year, dramatic reductions in the size and weight of typical business laptops and PCs spark a series of blogs and media stories about how drastically different "your ...

Clarkdale Volkswagen, a leading car dealership in the city of Vancouver, is about to celebrate its 50th year in business. It goes without saying that an IT strategy was not in place when the ...

Microsoft working on G5 compatibility for next release As previously reported, the current iteration of Virtual PC (6.1) is incompatible with the now-shipping Power Macintosh G5s. A Microsoft ...

This is so new that I can’t even find a press release about it yet, but Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is now free. Anyone can download the latest release, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1, which ...

In our house, we use Virtual PC for all the wrong reasons. The main user is my 15-year-old son, Matt, who uses it to play PC games on his Mac. Perhaps the best praise I can give to VPC 4.0 is that ...

Windows Virtual PC enables a user to run virtualized environments on top of Windows 7. A virtualized environment, or virtual machine, behaves identically to a physical machine but is implemented via ...