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 ...

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is transforming how organizations deliver secure and scalable Windows desktops for remote and hybrid teams. By combining thorough preparation, streamlined deployment, and ...

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 ...

The Azure Virtual Desktop service now offers the choice of using the Windows 11 operating system at the preview stage, per a Thursday Microsoft announcement. Azure Virtual Desktop is a 2-year-old ...

The company also unveiled new security capabilities for the platform, which was previously known as Windows Virtual Desktop. Microsoft has rebranded its virtual desktop infrastructure platform under ...

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 ...

Even Microsoft, however reluctantly, has now accepted the trend towards embedded hypervisors even while it simultaneously tries to keep as much control over its own destiny as possible. Gordon Haff is ...

Microsoft on Friday announced Azure Virtual Desktop support for virtual machines with "Trusted Launch" protections. Trusted Launch support for Azure virtual machines actually reached the "general ...

BOSTON--Microsoft, faced with virtualization competition and customer demands, is working to bring some technologies to market sooner than it earlier had said. Virtualization, which today generally ...