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In our previous article, “VMware Versions Compared“, we compared the various products in VMware’s product line. For example, the difference between VMware Server, Workstation, and Server ESX. In this article, we will focus specifically on the VMware ESX product line and the VMware virtualization suite called VMware Infrastructure. With a variety of VMware Infrastructure suites…

The Command Prompt is a native Windows program that lets you execute commands without using a GUI. You can accomplish pretty much every task in the Command Prompt as you can with the GUI and a mouse. The Command Prompt gets its roots (arguably) from a combination of UNIX and MS-DOS. Consider it “Windows without…

With the new Aero Theme Microsoft introduced 3D look to windows, something that Mac OS X users have had for quite a while. With Aero, the user can view the 3rd dimension of a window by flipping the window by pressing the Windows Logo key + TAB. The overall appearance of the Windows Vista desktop…

Say “No” to Hoaxes As much good stuff as there is on the Internet, unfortunately there is even more bad stuff such as spam, virii, scams, porn, crackers, etc. Another one of the annoying things found in abundance online are hoaxes. What is a Hoax? A hoax is usually an e-mail you receive with a…

Microsoft Windows, 32-bit winVista = Windows Vista (experimental) longhorn = Windows Longhorn (experimental) winNetBusiness = Windows 2003 Small Business Server winNetEnterprise = Windows 2003 Enterprise Server winNetStandard = Windows 2003 Server winNetWeb = Windows 2003 Web Server Edition winXPPro = Windows XP Professional Edition winXPHome = Windows XP Home Edition win2000AdvServ = Windows 2000 Advanced…

For those of you new to the idea of virtualization, virtualization is the nesting of “sub-operating systems” within a host operating system.  More specifically, virtual operating systems, better known as virtual machines, allow the end user to leverage the power of the host PC to explore other operating systems.  With virtualization, a user can run Linux…

If you got to this article I suppose you’ve already read my “Creating Virtual Machines with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007” article (if not, it might be a good time to suggest that you did). Remember, creating a VM is just equivalent to buying a new physical computer with a CPU, memory, an empty hard disk,…

Download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Yes, now you can, for free! Microsoft has released the new Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 version of their VM software. You can use it to run multiple operating systems (also called "guests") at the same time on the same physical computer (also called "the host machine"). You can easily switch…

Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Machines The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from…

As I mentioned in my “Creating Virtual Machines with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007” article, Microsoft Virtual PC is one of the top contenders in a growing line of Virtual Machine utilities. I will not go into the age-old fight on who’s best – Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare’s software. Both are free and both are…