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 ...

Early in 2006, Forrester Research Inc. analysts said that the desktop virtualization technology of the day was “the future of the corporate PC.” In August of the following year, Gartner ...

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system. It also introduced ...

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.

VMware on Tuesday released VMware View 3, new software aimed at providing desktop virtualization, application virtualization and management of virtual desktops in one product. VMware View is a ...

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 ...

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), ...

In 1960, "The Andy Griffith Show" first aired on television. A spin-off of the already popular "The Danny Thomas Show," it went on to become one of the most popular TV series of all time, far ...

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 ...

Schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are deploying virtual desktop technology that lets several users share the computing capacity of a single PC. Each of ...