Multitasking is a term familiar to all of us in the tech world. The ability to juggle multiple applications or PCs is seen as a benefit. But it’s not without its challenges. Those of us who run many ...

Early in 2006, Forrester Research Inc. analysts said that the desktop virtualization technology of the day was “the future of the corporate PC.” In August of the following year, Gartner ...

Do you mostly use browsers for all your computing needs? By using virtual desktops instead of browser tabs, you get real ...

In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

Google maintains a piece of software, Cloudtop, that employees use to access internal programs. It's the sort of thing that might be helpful for companies that want to keep their employees productive ...

Citirix is a key investor in Virtual Computer, which focuses on the provisioning, publishing, and patching of desktop and laptop operating systems Citrix has spent the past year and a half redefining ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it ...

At least that's what one startup vendor hopes solution providers will do. Pano Logic, of Menlo Park, Calif., this week unveiled a desktop PC virtualization hardware appliance which the company ...

At its iForum conference in Las Vegas, Citrix is announcing XenDesktop, desktop-virtualization software that is an outgrowth of its purchase of XenSource. In addition, new Citrix software supports ...