*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is now in public beta and is slated for launch in the first half of next year. The update includes a pair of key new features: Dynamic Memory, which allows memory on a ...

Parallels, a leading global provider in virtualization and end-user computing (EUC) solutions, today announced a significant update to Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server), introducing a new ...

At EMA, my research into virtualization (which you can help, by taking the survey here – more on that later) has brought me to the world’s largest software companies to talk about their recent ...

It's been almost a year since Microsoft completed the acquisition of Softricity, Inc. and received the application virtualization technology of SoftGrid. And since that time, there really hasn't been ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has bought Softricity Inc., a provider of software to virtualize applications or stream them on-demand to client PCs. Microsoft also said that a beta version of ...

Weird OS: Microsoft regularly deprecates features in Windows, typically replacing them with improved alternatives or streamlining development. That's why its decision to drop a relatively new security ...