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 ...

Don't miss out on one of Windows' best multitasking and productivity features that gives you more room to work.

Virtual desktops have been a fundamental and powerful resource for IT professionals and computer hobbyists since the Windows 2000 days and are still widely popular. With virtual desktops, multiple ...

Organizations that don't want to deploy local Windows desktops running on laptops and PCs can turn to remote and virtual desktops to fulfill their needs but deciding which to use can be difficult.

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 ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

Microsoft’s virtual desktops are one of the of the more unique features of Windows 10—a quick way to organize “screens” of apps that you can switch to back and forth. Rearranging them has always been ...

As you can see above, I created a desktop devoted to my apps and one for any games that I want to run. This allows me to keep my applications organized according to their purpose. How to rename ...

Liquidware is betting that cloud-based virtual desktops will sprawl out in a similar manner to virtual servers, and is partnering up with the major cloud vendors in anticipation. The early promise of ...

Last week’s tips for successfully hosting virtual desktops story mentioned an interesting alternative to VDI: Citrix’s hosted shared virtual desktop technology, based on XenApp. The technology has ...