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 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 ...

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For many UK IT leaders, “cloud-only” desktop strategies sounded like the inevitable destination just a few years ago.

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, ...

Calculating your Microsoft licenses in a virtual world does not have to be a daunting task. At least, not anymore. After all, when trying to architect and implement your virtualization environment, ...

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 ...

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in ...

Microsoft has announced this week that Azure Virtual Desktop support for passwordless authentication has now entered public preview. Redmond said Azure Active Directory (AD) administrators will also ...