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 ...

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 ...

Virtual Computer launched NxTop Connect at Citrix's Synergy. The company is doing its best to simplify virtual desktop environments. It is addressing the fact that there are a confusing array of ...

To create a new virtual desktop, click on the two overlapping grey boxes on the Taskbar and click on New desktop. Or use the ...

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 programs such as Microsoft Virtual PC can help your business computers run older programs that require Windows XP. You can use Virtual PC to create a virtual machine that contains a ...

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” ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that they had acquired Connectix Corp.’s Virtual PC products, including Virtual PC for Mac, Virtual PC for Windows and Virtual Server. Microsoft also hired many ...

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 ...

A recent film ignited a new generation of armchair epistemologists when it proposed that we could be living inside an elaborate computer simulation. While your philosophy major friends were quick to ...