Customers that acquire Vista Enterprise through Software Assurance can run four copies of Windows on one device for a single user at no additional charge, Microsoft said at its Velocity 2006 partner ...

Virtualization, which allows users to run apps from multiple versions of Windows at the same time on a desktop, can alleviate OS/software compatibility issues As Microsoft continues to recommend that ...

Microsoft has finalized its acquisition of Israel-based desktop virtualization startup Kidaro and said that it plans to incorporate Kidaro's technology into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack ...

Microsoft is making available for download as of April 1 the final version of its desktop-virtualization-management product that is designed to help Vista users run legacy Windows 2000 and Windows XP ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Kidaro is particularly well suited to mobile environments with large numbers of notebook PCs, where the ability to deploy and move PC images quickly and ...

In a series of briefings held on both coasts last week for product reviewers, Microsoft detailed the features that will be included in its Windows 7 Enterprise edition when it is released later this ...

It seems as if every vendor is putting out new products or touting old products designed to help make Windows 7 a good platform, or to cement justification for desktop virtualization projects. [ For ...

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Microsoft is rebranding its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service as "Azure Virtual Desktop." At the same time, the company is introducing a new ISV/per-user pricing option and taking the wraps off a ...

Microsoft has tried to improve its licensing policies gradually over the past several years, says Dai Vu, the company’s director of virtualization product management. “Licensing and virtualization are ...