Company reverses plan to expand rights to allow home versions of the operating systems to run inside virtual machines.
For months, the industry has been calling on Microsoft to ease restrictions forcing customers to use only the priciest versions of Windows Vista for desktop virtualisation, which it had planned this week before changing its mind at the last minute.
Serguei Beloussov woke up early on Tuesday to see people in the world of virtualisation commenting on the news that he had sold his company, Parallels, to Sun for US$205 million.
Despite some problems, SWsoft, manufacturer of Parallels virtualisation software for Macs and PCs, say that the product is compatible with the new Leopard release of Mac OS X.
Virtualisation software vendor Parallels has released an update to its Parallels Desktop virtualisation software for Intel-based Apple Macs.
The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware.
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US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Fujitsu's foray into Centrino 2 laptops is solid, but the competition is offering more features at a lower price.
Businesses looking to roll out desktops won't be let down by the solid HP DX2710 small form factor PC, but watch out for the short one-year warranty.
Ubuntu is very user-friendly but not right for everyone. Oddly, both casual and advanced users will find this operating system wonderful, while day-to-day users may rail against Ubuntu's incompatibility with certain popular software applications.
Equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and vPro remote management hardware, the HP Compaq dc7700P is certainly an attractive option for business users.
The P4 strikes us as a good, reliable machine with plenty of features. Despite its conservative appearance there is modern technology inside, providing solid performance.
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