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 ...

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.

Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup. In two previous articles I talked about ...

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 ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

In two previous articles I talked about how I purchased the cheapest Windows PC I could find, an ATOPNUC MA90, and assessed its quality and usability for home and office use. I was surprised that I ...