What is Microsoft App-V? Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) is an application virtualization client that makes an application available to end users without installing it on a personal ...

*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 ...

Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack is a subscription offering for Software Assurance maintenance contract customers that wraps together technologies from recent Microsoft acquisitions, including ...

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 ...

As Microsoft Corp. officially released its Application Virtualization 4.5 software today, it also announced several licensing changes around virtual desktops and application virtualization, while ...

Have you heard? Thin is “in” again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin client computing are being ...

App virtualization (application virtualization) is the installation of an application on one computer and enabling an end user's client computer to remotely access that application. This is done ...

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 ...

Turning on the built-in hypervisor can change how VirtualBox and VMware use hardware and affect performance.

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 ...