Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into ...

Microsoft’s VirtualPC was once available for Macs and Windows, but now is only available and supported for Windows-based hosts. There are no guest tools available for other operating systems, and all ...

Do you primarily use Windows 11 but want to have a quick look at a Linux distribution like Linux Mint? Well, booting from a live DVD or USB stick is a convenient solution. The advantage of this is ...

Microsoft's Xbox team has been assigned to the development of Virtual PC's native graphics card support, sources tell AppleInsider. Feeling pressure from both Apple and G5 customers, Microsoft this ...

Martin upgraded Virtual PC 2007 to SP1, and gave the Windows 7 beta the 1024 MB of RAM it needs. Now the VM Additions install, but the sound drivers won't. It's still better than last week. As I ...

Thanks to products like VMware Pocket ACE, the soul of your PC can be reduced onto the likes of an 8 GB memory stick. That fact struck home the other day when VMWare executive Jerry Chen dropped by ...

You can even use a Proxmox-based Windows 11 VM as your daily driver!

It’s easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here’s a look at the advantages, plus instructions.