As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

When Java was released in 1995, all computer programs were written to a specific operating system, and program memory was managed by the software developer. The JVM was a revelation. JavaWorld / IDG ...

That means you’ll need a big-enough USB drive to contain whatever operating system you install—1.5GB for Windows XP and 5GB for Ubuntu, to name a couple of examples—and you might have ...

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system that’s emulated within another operating system. You could run Windows within a MacBook as a virtual machine, or even Windows within Windows.

Virtual Machines are instanced computers that allow for experimentation, emulation of other operating systems, and even dangerous activity like malware analysis to happen within a temporary and ...