With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 20, 2008
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its role in the desktop virtualization arena with new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- May 20, 2008
Citrix today announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 20, 2008
Microsoft today published a new release candidate (RC1) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical product in Microsoft's emerging virtualization lineup.
- By Keith Ward
- May 20, 2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
- By David Nagel
- May 19, 2008
Microsoft launches SharePoint Deployment Planning Services, available now for customers with Volume Licensing Software Assurance through partners with an SDPS certification.
- By David Nagel
- May 19, 2008
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 19, 2008
Security software vendor PC Tools on Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 16, 2008
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets along with Linux.
- By David Nagel
- May 16, 2008
Evans Data research indicates only eight percent of developers in North America are writing applications for Vista, even though the OS has been live for 15 months.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 15, 2008
The Bush administration's economic-stimulus tax rebate program, under which the Internal Revenue Service is issuing taxpayers payments of as much as $1,200, has given rise to a new wave of phishing scams, according to a new FBI notice.
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- May 15, 2008
A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processors
- By Becky Nagel
- May 15, 2008
Microsoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 15, 2008
Microsoft and some independent security researchers had the blogosphere buzzing Wednesday over a series of denunciations after one company claimed that Vista was more vulnerable to malware and other exploits than previous operating systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 14, 2008
A preview version of the server for small-to-medium businesses is now available, according to a Microsoft announcement that included pricing and licensing details.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2008