Alex Vasilevsky, CTO of Virtual Computer, posted a tweet proclaiming that a milestone in the development of NxTop the other day (see The Launch of Virtual Computer, Inc. for more information). Since I ...

The folks at Virtual Computer (see The Launch of Virtual Computer, Inc. andVirtual Computer NxTop Beta) have launched NxTop, a desktop virtualization product that aims to bring some order to what ...

Microsoft working on G5 compatibility for next release As previously reported, the current iteration of Virtual PC (6.1) is incompatible with the now-shipping Power Macintosh G5s. A Microsoft ...

Virtualization has long been a fun toy for PC enthusiasts, and a godsend for developers who need to test their applications on a wide variety of operating systems. Now Microsoft has opened up the fun ...

When Microsoft took over development of Virtual PC, after buying Connectix at the beginning of 2003, it promised Mac users a reason to celebrate. With Microsoft’s intimate knowledge of Windows, the ...

Over the last few months a new trend has emerged: More and more Windows users are changing over to a Mac. For the most part, PC users are confident they are making the correct decision, but ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

Many businesses have moved to the Windows 7 operating system, but some older business applications still require Windows XP to run. Businesses with legitimate copies ...

In our house, we use Virtual PC for all the wrong reasons. The main user is my 15-year-old son, Matt, who uses it to play PC games on his Mac. Perhaps the best praise I can give to VPC 4.0 is that ...

Microsoft has released version 7.0.2 of Virtual PC, its Intel emulation software for PowerPC-based Mac OS X systems. The update's brief release notes indicate improvements in overall stability of ...

Amin Inshassi asked the Desktops forum for details about what can and can’t be done with a virtual machine. In a virtual machine (VM), software pretends to be hardware. You can thus load a “computer” ...