App-V 5.0 includes significant improvements to make virtualization a more appealing option for businesses.

VMware is by far the market leader for server virtualization, with competitors Microsoft and Citrix far behind. But when one expands the market to include application virtualization, the race gets ...

A slew of Microsoft announcements this week reflect the company's increasing presence in the desktop and application virtualization spaces -- areas in which server virtualization market leader ...

With SoftGrid 4.0, Softricity is giving infrastructure partners a new way to virtualize and stream Windows applications to end users from within Microsoft's Systems Management Server.

Microsoft announced some new tools today for MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) customers. Beta versions are now available of an updated App-V 5.0 (Application Virtualization), and a new ...

The just-released Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 also shared the spotlight, along with a raft of programs and solutions from Microsoft partners.

The latest version of Microsoft's application virtualization technology is now ready after reaching release candidate status. The technology comes from the 2006 acquisition of Softricity and their ...

It's been almost a year since Microsoft completed the acquisition of Softricity, Inc. and received the application virtualization technology of SoftGrid. And since that time, there really hasn't ...

Citrix is positioning Citrix XenApp to stream apps onto the Branch Repeater, and Microsoft is positioning Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid) and System Center management tools for the ...

Microsoft is making available for download as of April 1 the final version of its desktop-virtualization-management product that is designed to help Vista users run legacy Windows 2000 and Windows ...

Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company's march toward services-based computing.

Parallels Inc. released a new version of its Windows/Linux desktop virtualization software, saying it should be able to run some applications as much as eight times faster than its predecessor.