Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

VMware Workstation Pro, which used to cost around $250, is now available free of charge. The program outperforms Virtualbox in terms of features, setting options, hardware support, saving and managing ...

Microsoft has delayed until later this year the release of Virtual PC 7, the latest version of a program that allows Windows software to run on the Macintosh. The software maker said the software ...

Virtualization unquestionably pulls more power out of today's PCs, which are often loaded with more processor and hardware muscle than your everyday apps require. While many virtualization vendors and ...

The software giant announces several changes and plans for its Virtual PC software, which lets Windows run on Apple machines. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, ...

Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into ...

Virtual Desktop has collaborated with Qualcomm to integrate the company’s Snapdragon Game Super Resolution, a software enhancement squarely targeted at increasing the wireless streaming quality and ...

I’m using Microsoft Word to write this column. But the version of Word executing on my laptop today isn’t really installed on my machine: It was streamed to me by Softricity Inc.’s SoftGrid Server in ...

The question of Xbox 2 backward compatibility is open once again, courtesy of Internet reports that the Xbox technology team is working on graphics card emulation for the next version of Microsoft's ...

It just takes longer to make a program that will make a Macintosh run Windows software, Microsoft reports. The delay will also push back the release of one version of Office 2004 for Mac. During her ...