Windows Virtual PC (Windows, Free) Compared to the other any-OS-under-the-sun virtual machine applications in this week’s Hive Five, Windows Virtual PC is a tame offering.

Cloud-based, virtual applications can run PCs and smartphones, improving your connectivity, shifting costs from up-front to monthly, and streamlining software maintenance work.

Virtual PC will work on chips that don’t have those hooks, ... Like most things virtual, loading applications or accessing data on the host machine is like walking across a transparent bridge.

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 ...

Virtual PC 2007 adds support for Windows Vista as a host operating system but not much else. It still doesn’t support 64-bit computing and continues to lag behind VMware Workstation in areas ...

However, the term “virtual” is misleading in that all desktops have equal rights and are therefore of equal value in Windows 10 and 11. Therefore, Windows does not limit its number of virtual ...

A Type 2 hypervisor is really an application, like Windows Virtual PC, which runs on top of a full-featured OS such as Windows 7 -- and there are more out there, including VMware Workstation.

Tech Analysis: With vendors such as Microsoft, Novell, VMware, Symantec and Citrix rolling out application virtualization components to their offerings, enterprise IT administrators need to take a ...

Suppliers of application virtualization technology, such as AppZero, Citrix, Moka5, Spoon, VMware, and even Microsoft, have long been talking about the day that Windows XP would die and suggesting ...

Last month I contrasted the application virtualization technology in Softricity Inc.’s SoftGrid server/Softricity Desktop with iShare wide are file services technology from Tacit Networks that ...

You can display a Windows Start menu, as well as the icons of your running Windows applications, in your OS X Dock. If you need to run Windows programs on your Mac, Virtual PC is a godsend.