virtual desktops

Hornsby Shire Council in northern Sydney is in the pilot phase of a rollout of virtual desktop infrastructure. The rollout, which is due to be completed by the end of June, will involve shifting the council's employees from Windows XP to virtual Windows 7 desktops delivered via Nutanix converged...

I have Windonws 7 Professional running on several virtual desktops (VMWare View). The virtual desktops go to sleep after a few minutes, and require a password on wakeup. I've read a number of threads that deal with either disabling password on wakeup, or preventing the OS from going to sleep...

July 7, 2011 -- Cloud services provider ThinkGrid announced on Tuesday that it has launched Microsoft Windows 7-based Hosted Virtual Desktops. Link Removed - Invalid URL

The discovery of Microsoft India researcher Manoj Manduva's portfolio has given clues as to some of the interface features that may show in Windows 8. The proposal would include multiple virtual desktops that would include an "advanced desktop mode." Its basic template would appear to be a...

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The Power User's Guide to the Windows 7 Taskbar Link Removed It seems like every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the Windows 7 taskbar, and it's hard to keep them all straight. Here's the complete power user's guide to tweaking and using your...

Open Source Project to Enhance Linux 3D Desktop 3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. The current desktop is mapped into a fullscreen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. Several different visualization...

I haven't been able to figure out definitely if Win7 has multiple desktops or workspaces a'la Linux? I'm also a Linux user (actually have been using it more than XP until I took the plunge into the Win7 RC) and really miss being able to spread out over multiple workspaces. Anyone know if this...

Hi everyone anybody know a good Virtual Desktop application for X-64. The excellent Sys - internals desktop.exe version doesn't work in 64 bit builds -- the 2nd etc desktop just shows the background secreen without any apps and you can't get the "Orb" to launch any applications. (Logging off /...

Just a Question -- Has anybody been able to "replicate" the old XP Power toy where you could have 4 virtual desktops Linux has had this feature for AGES and is not only restricted to 4 but I'd be quite happy with 4. I've added this as a suggestion to MS both via feedback and by direct...

Anyone know whether MS is working on an update to enable virtual desktops? I know there are 3rd party software to do this, but I'd rather have it built-in to Windows.