In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

Customers that acquire Vista Enterprise through Software Assurance can run four copies of Windows on one device for a single user at no additional charge, Microsoft said at its Velocity 2006 partner ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

As Microsoft continues to recommend that business customers not pass over Vista in favor of the forthcoming Windows 7, the company has been working quietly to improve its software for desktop ...

Microsoft has finalized its acquisition of Israel-based desktop virtualization startup Kidaro and said that it plans to incorporate Kidaro's technology into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack ...

The company collaborated with Citrix, Hewlett-Packard and others on the new virtualization features in R2, which will include a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), as well as enhanced, remote server ...

It seems as if every vendor is putting out new products or touting old products designed to help make Windows 7 a good platform, or to cement justification for desktop virtualization projects. [ For ...

EBay releases beta of desktop application for buyers, 06/11/07: EBay on Monday opened a beta program for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction Web site easier, with new types of ...

Both Microsoft offerings (AVD and W365) are classified as Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), a term which refers to desktops that run in the cloud and which are managed and administrated by the cloud ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...