With its cross-platform charter expanding, Microsoft is making nice with its competitors -- though sometimes in rather circuitous ways. Take, for instance, what's happening in the virtualization space ...

Microsoft’s historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft’s rival VMware. Microsoft’s historic embrace of Linux technology could have ...

VMware and Novell have made Suse Linux Enterprise Server available free of charge to buyers of VMware vSphere licenses and subscriptions. On Thursday, the Suse Linux Enterprise Server for VMware offer ...

To run Ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine, you need a computer that supports virtualization, the latest version of VMware Workstation Player, a four-core processor, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and at least ...

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