The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of tools available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers that enables IT admins to manage Microsoft environments more effectively.

Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

Welcome to my blog series on the Virtualization Center where we will explore, unravel, define and compose the future of virtualization throughout our computing environment. To begin the series, let’s ...

As part of its ongoing plan to beef up its virtualization portfolio, Microsoft unveiled Monday it would acquire virtualization vendor Softricity, revealed a timeline for offering built-in hypervisor ...

Network World Senior Editor John Fontana has been all over Microsoft’s annual Management Summit Conference in Las Vegas this week. In two days, he has already filed a handful of stories on Microsoft’s ...

Virtualization technology is becoming a hot topic in the software arena, and nowMicrosoft is upping the ante with its promise to use VT to reduce the cost and complexity of IT management. Microsoft on ...