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 ...

Much like Paris Hilton, virtualization has become a headline in the news, yet very few SMB customers know what it does or exactly why it deserves attention. But that is changing as more solution ...

Windows Sandbox, which is a lightweight virtual desktop, can now have Microsoft Store installed in it using a simple PowerShell script.

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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 ...

Disk images for Microsoft's Windows 11 Development Environment virtual machines have suddenly become unavailable. As of Oct. 23, all four variants of these virtual machines—Hyper-V, Parallels for Mac, ...

Microsoft's Scott Woodgate offers up a few more details around the once hush-hush virtualization project within Windows 7 now known as XP Mode As we discussed earlier this week, Microsoft is going to ...

Q: I recently bought a computer with Windows 7 on it, but I have several applications that will run best from Windows XP. I hear I need to use the Windows 7 feature called XP Mode. How do I use this?