Microsoft's Server and Tools Business did the virtual conference thing for industry analysts last week. Fellow analyst Judith Hurwitz ably describes the limitations of this format. I concur with much ...

Do you have situations where users work from home, connecting from personal devices? Do you trust those devices and the networks they're connecting from? Do you have compliance regulations that ...

Microsoft has followed a rival in advocating virtualization as a way to try out software painlessly. Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format can be used to collect an operating system, higher-level ...

Microsoft has confirmed that recent Windows updates trigger RemoteApp connection failures on Windows 11 24H2/25H2 and Windows Server 2025 devices in Azure Virtual Desktop environments.

Microsoft is offering a new service to offload virtualization tasks and speed cloud instance performance. The company this week announced a preview of Azure Boost, a new system that offloads ...

More from Mark Russinovich’s Ignite 2025 sessions, detailing software developments that underpin Microsoft’s move to ...

Over the last few years, I've read and listened to numerous complaints from people about Microsoft not being fully invested in virtualization, that the software giant was simply sticking their big toe ...

One of the challenges that Microsoft faces in competing with VMware in the enterprise is the substantial technology lead that VMware enjoys over Microsoft’s Hyper-V offering. In particular, VMware is ...

'The cost of owning and operating a virtualization environment now has really gotten much cheaper, much easier, simpler to deploy [and] manage,’ Microsoft’s Scott Manchester tells CRN. Microsoft ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to its Virtual Server plans, announcing it will shift its next update of the software from a maintenance release to a paid upgrade. The Redmond, ...

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