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 ...

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 ...

Most of the time, my taskbar is a cluttered catastrophe, and I have a nearly uncountable number of tabs open in more browser windows than I would care to count. Virtual desktops saved my ...

VMware on Tuesday announced VMware View Open Client and claimed that it advances its vClient Initiative toward universal clients. The new software, available under the GNU Lesser GPL 2.1, enables IT ...

Virtual Desktops are used to categorize your work and personal stuff. It would be nice if each had a different background. Until now, Windows offers the same desktop on each of them, which also made ...

When I first decided to give Windows 11 virtual desktops a try, I thought I would keep using them. I would use one for work and another for personal projects. It felt like one of those features I ...

Elegant, feature-rich virtual desktop manager Finestra works very well–most of the time. If Finestra Virtual Desktops (free/donationware) hadn’t crashed on me once or twice, it would’ve scored at ...

Ulteo is poised to offer commercial support for its free virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software, which the open-source startup says will cost companies a fraction of established offerings from ...

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Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. With the pace of cyberattacks ever on the rise, higher education ...

Red Hat embraced the virtualization market some time ago, starting with the open source Xen technology as part of the company’s Enterprise Linux operating system. After focusing a lot of attention on ...