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 ...

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.

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 ...

MokaFive and Stoneware are joining the fray with, respectively, technology that puts your desktop on a USB Flash drive and that delivers a desktop through a Web browser The desktop virtualization ...

IBM Monday debuted Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, the company's first desktop virtualization product targeting SMBs. The new software, which allows Windows or Linux desktops to be hosted and ...

Hewlett-Packard hopes to widen the use of its desktop virtualization products with new software that will improve video playback and allow the use of USB peripherals such as webcams, the company ...

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), ...

The greatest benefit of desktop virtualization is the ability to provision PCs and other client devices with software from a central location. IT can manage a large number of enterprise clients from ...

Hoping to stay a step ahead of rival VMware, Citrix Systems is now shipping its XenDesktop product line of desktop virtualization software. Announced Tuesday at the company’s annual Citrix Synergy ...

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 ...

NYRO Technix, Inc. has announced a lower price for its VirtSpace window manager, an application available for Mac OS 9. Using VirtSpace, you can create a virtual desktop up to 100 times the size of ...