The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of tools available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers that enables IT admins to manage Microsoft environments more effectively.

Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack is a subscription offering for Software Assurance maintenance contract customers that wraps together technologies from recent Microsoft acquisitions, including ...

Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

Network World Senior Editor John Fontana has been all over Microsoft’s annual Management Summit Conference in Las Vegas this week. In two days, he has already filed a handful of stories on Microsoft’s ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.