Public Preview 2 feature aims to simplify management of virtualized environments from a centralized interface.

A war of words in the virtualization space is heating up over what Microsoft says are inaccurate claims being bandied about by market-leader VMware. Microsoft's furious response to a recent VMware ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calculating your Microsoft licenses in a virtual world does not have to be a daunting task. At least, not anymore. After all, when trying to architect and implement your virtualization environment, ...

Over the last few years, I've read and listened to numerous complaints from people about Microsoft not being fully invested in virtualization, that the software giant was simply sticking their big toe ...

Regardless of where we sit on the VMware/Citrix/Microsoft virtualization debate, there is one indisputable fact: Microsoft has the largest partner ecosystem. It's size will give the company a certain ...

Microsoft Corp. plans to charge and arm and a leg to allow users of Apple Computer's Intel Macs to run its next-generation Windows Vista operating system under virtualization. In its licensing terms ...

(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 ...