Cloud-based DaaS offers several advantages to a remote workforce. This guide to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) assesses the platform and what it can offer.

If you are using a single-monitor PC and working from home during this pandemic, creating multiple virtual desktops can be very handy. Since working from home requires managing multiple projects or ...

Multiple (virtual) desktops for the win!

The first time I experienced a virtual desktop was with my little Linux netbook I used at university. With its tiny screen, it wasn't really feasible to have multiple apps open at once, so with a ...

It took Microsoft a long time to integrate virtual desktop functions into its operating system. While virtual desktops had been established under Linux and macOS for years, they only made their way ...

With the future of work moving from office cubicles to the home, DaaS is becoming a more attractive choice than ever. Thanks to the pandemic, working from home no longer languishes as a rare option ...

When Microsoft finally added virtual desktop support to Windows 10, my productivity instantly skyrocketed. Virtual desktops create secondary (and tertiary, and..) home screens for your PC, each ...

Desktop virtualization is widely viewed as the Next Big Thing in the virtualization market, but it’s by no means an easy nut to crack. That’s because the challenges of getting virtualization working ...

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system. It also introduced ...

While the VMware book market is healthy (we liked “The Book of VMware: The Complete Guide to VMware Workstation” by Brian Ward a lot) and despite all of the excitement over virtualization (for example ...