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 ...

It's rather unusual for me to comment on funding for a supplier of virtualization technology. This time, however, I thought Virtual Computer's announcement that it had received funding from Highland ...

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 ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. The software industry is learning that virtual machines ...

These days, everyone is excited about the promise of PC virtualization, but with so many different flavors out there, it’s hard to know where to start. The idea of reducing a fully functional ...

JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. And it can run anywhere that has a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile-phone or set-top box. It has been developed since August ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows Virtual PC enables a user to run virtualized environments on top of Windows 7. A virtualized environment, or virtual machine, behaves identically to a physical machine but is implemented via ...

Late last year, we told you about the Chungus 2, a virtual computer that was “built” within the blocky world of Minecraft. The initial processor design could play super-basic games like Snake on a ...

In our house, we use Virtual PC for all the wrong reasons. The main user is my 15-year-old son, Matt, who uses it to play PC games on his Mac. Perhaps the best praise I can give to VPC 4.0 is that ...