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.

If you're only virtualizing Windows, you also have the choice of using Windows Virtual PC.For the most part, it isn't quite as good as the above options, but it does come with a free Windows XP ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Software virtualization company Cameyo announced that its ChromeOS integration now enables Windows applications to coexist with Google apps on ChromeOS..