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 ...

Oracle has introduced new desktop virtualization software, including new releases of three products. The new product versions are Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4, Sun Ray Software 5.3 and ...

Virtualization watchers have speculated for years when Microsoft would throw a low-cost blow at arch-rival VMware in the desktop virtualization fight. This week, Microsoft delivered the punch via a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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