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Microsoft is making Teams on Amazon Workspaces a lot better

Usama Jawad — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has delivered a major optimization for Teams customers using Amazon Workspaces on Windows endpoints, now in public preview. Read more...

Microsoft announces VM Conversion tool

Usama Jawad — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:38:01 +0000

Microsoft is making it easier for IT admins to migrate Linux and Windows guest VMware VMs to Windows Server with Hyper-V. Read more...

Windows Sandbox is awesome and I wish more people knew about it

Usama Jawad — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:00:01 +0000

Windows Sandbox is a very nifty piece of virtualization software available by default in Windows for the past six years; many people just don't know about it. Read more...

Microsoft shares detailed guide to meet Windows 11 TPM requirements when moving VMs

Sayan Sen — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:56:01 +0000

Microsoft has published a detailed guide on how to meet the requirements of Windows 11 TPM 2.0 when moving and migrating virtual machines. Read more...

'Open source Windows' ReactOS shows off one of the most iconic Windows games in full screen

Sayan Sen — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:16:01 +0000

ReactOS, one of the "open source Windows" alternative OSs, has received some upgrades related to the Explorer. The project is now able to run full-screen apps. Read more...

VMware Workstation Pro (free) fixes Windows 11 freezing, boot crash issue, and more

Sayan Sen — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:52:02 +0000

The latest VMware Workstation Pro update fixes Windows 11 freezing and crash issues plus security vulnerabilities. Read more...

VirtualBox fixes Windows 11 24H2 BSOD, improves Windows driver installs, NVMe, and more

Sayan Sen — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:22:01 +0000

A couple of new VirtualBox releases are out. The updates bring Windows 11 24H2 BSOD fix and manymore improvements. Read more...

Latest VMware update is free with no license, fixes Windows 11 and Linux freezes, crashes

Sayan Sen — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:30:01 +0000

VMware Workstation Pro and Player received new updates today with fixes for freezes and crash issues on Windows and Linux. Read more...

"Helldown" ransomware attacks expand to Linux and VMware

David Uzondu — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:30:01 +0000

The Helldown ransomware has evolved, now hitting virtual machines in VMware and Linux environments, raising alarms for cybersecurity teams. Read more...

VMware brings full 3D acceleration for Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs

Taras Buria — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:06:01 +0000

VMware has released Fusion Tech Preview 2023 with a "significant leap forward" for its virtualization software on macOS. Apple Silicon-based Mac users now have full 3D acceleration on Windows 11. Read more...

A3 VMs now in private preview on Google Cloud, powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Paul Hill — Wed, 10 May 2023 19:09:26 +0000

Google Cloud has announced its new A3 VMs are available in a private preview. They are powered by NVIDIA's H100 GPUs and are designed for training complex machine-learning models quicker. Read more...

You can now test Windows 11 Moment 2 update using Microsoft's free virtual machines

Taras Buria — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:22:01 +0000

You can now test Windows 11's latest feature update without purchasing a license for the operating system. Microsoft has updated its official virtual machines available for a free evaluation. Read more...

Google Meet will now offer better quality if you connect via a VDI

Usama Jawad — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 04:04:01 +0000

Google has announced a relatively significant update to Meet which will benefit remote workers and/or contractors who use a VDI to access their employer's resources and engage in online calls. Read more...

VMware Workstation 17.0 Pro now live with Windows 11 guest OS and virtual TPM 2.0 support

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:54:01 +0000

Organizations, enthusiasts, and developers might be pleased to know that VMware Workstation Pro now officially supports Windows 11 via a virtual TPM 2.0 device present in version 17.0 of the product. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 11 performance, adoption, and new features

Usama Jawad — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:00:01 +0000

This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly is jam-packed with news about Windows 11, including items related to its performance and bugs, growth, as well as some new features that were recently added. Read more...

Microsoft Azure VMs powered by Ampere Altra ARM processors rolling out this week

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:10:01 +0000

Azure Virtual Machines, powered by Ampere Altra ARM processors, will hit General Availability on September 1. These CPUs support Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise, as well as several Linux distros. Read more...

Oracle VirtualBox finally gets support for Windows 11, macOS Big Sur, Monterey, and more

Sayan Sen — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 04:38:01 +0000

VirtualBox from Oracle has finally gained the ability to run on Windows 11 as the host with latest version 7.0.0 Beta 1. The software has also received support for macOS Big Sur, Monterey, and more. Read more...

Latest Patch Tuesday update is causing major problems for Windows Server admins

Usama Jawad — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:54:27 +0000

Although software updates are supposed to fix problems, it appears that the latest Patch Tuesday release is causing major headaches for Windows Server admins due to DC boot loops and Hyper-V issues. Read more...

Developers can now download a Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machine from Microsoft

Usama Jawad — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has made available a virtual machine running Windows 11 Enterprise for development and evaluation use-cases. Four options are available depending upon which virtualization software you use. Read more...

Canonical's Multipass 1.8 brings instant Ubuntu VMs to M1 Macs

Paul Hill — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:14:01 +0000

Canonical has announced the availability of Multipass 1.8, a tool that lets you quickly set up Ubuntu VMs on Windows, Linux and macOS. This update brings aliases and Apple M1 support. Read more...

Latest update to Parallels Desktop brings full support for Windows 11 and macOS Monterey

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:56:01 +0000

Parallels Desktop 17.1 is bringing full support for running virtualized Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. There's no need to manually switch on support for TPM, as opposed to the previous version of it. Read more...

Windows 11 WSL 2 performs well enough vs the latest Ubuntu 21.10 but not always

Sayan Sen — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:38:01 +0000

Testing of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) on Windows 11 shows competitive performance against Ubuntu 21.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. But, it also loses by a lot under certain scenarios. Read more...

Windows 11 may work with VirtualBox as Oracle apparently preps a passthrough driver for TPM

Sayan Sen — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 21:56:01 +0000

Oracle is making a new driver for VirtualBox that will allow it to do a passthrough to utilize the host's TPM. This may be in preparation for the new TPM requirement for Windows 11 on VMs. Read more...

Windows 11 is now available as a preview for Azure Virtual Desktop

Usama Jawad — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has released Windows 11 preview images for Azure Virtual Desktop. The release promises exclusive support for multi-session, with an experience similar to that of a local Windows 11 machine. Read more...

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AWS Nitro Enclaves, a service for processing sensitive data, hits general availability

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 05:40:01 +0000

AWS Nitro Enclaves provide highly isolated EC2 instances without persistent storage, administrator or operator access, or external networking. These Enclaves will be tailored to data processing tasks. Read more...

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News Staff — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:46:01 +0000

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News Staff — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:46:01 +0000

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New malware detects virtual machines to prevent analysis

Justin Luna — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:14:01 +0000

A security researcher has found that a certain malware now has the ability to detect if it is being used on a virtual machine. It will refuse to run if affirmed, so it cannot be dissected. Read more...

Microsoft releases August 2016 edition of evaluation Windows developer virtual machines

Usama Jawad — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 05:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has released the August 2016 edition of evaluation Windows developer virtual machines, allowing access to the latest tools, including Bash on Ubuntu on Windows and Project Islandwood. Read more...

Microsoft publishes its own FreeBSD distro... kind of

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has taken perhaps the ultimate step in showing its love for open software, as the company has published its own image of FreeBSD. However, the image is designed for Azure cloud VMs. Read more...

BrowserStack, a browser testing service, appears to have been significantly compromised

Steven Johns — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:54:01 +0000

Emails have been sent out to BrowserStack customers alleging that the service offers none of the security protections it had claimed to offer and as a result will be shutting down. Read more...

Azure's new G-series VMs are massive, but where did the G come from?

Brad Sams — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:00:01 +0000

This week, Microsoft announced a new series of virtual machines for the enterprise that run in Azure called the G series; and while the D series stands for SSD VMs, where did the G come from? Read more...