Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

New update integrates OpenJDK and adds virtualisation enhancements.

Virtualisation outfit Parallels is making a virtualisation tool that will let users continue to run Windows XP applications on Windows 7 systems. The software will compete directly with the Vole's own Windows XP Mode.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

Virtualisation tool will help small firms migrate to next-gen Microsoft OS.

IT execs looking to open source options, says Novell.

Microsoft has published a release candidate of XP Mode for Windows 7

Vendor details editions for Office 2010 along with application virtualisation for testing.

Parallels is targeting PC users switching to the Mac platform with a special edition of its Desktop for Mac that adds migration tools and tutorials to help Windows users get up to speed with the Mac OS X user interface.

Firm promises better experience for workers accessing virtual desktops.

New OS enables efficiency savings, but Microsoft declines to simplify licensing.

Istanbul offers more performance at same power draw as quad-cores.

Paul Maritz talks up the 'software mainframe' at VMworld in Cannes.

It's time to put your IT manager hat on and try to think about what all this Cloud computing, Azure and so forth is going to actually do for you.

As Vista and Windows 7 share the same core code, Microsoft has decided to merely nudge up the version number (Windows Vista was 6) so that applications are tricked into thinking it's Vista they're dealing with

Virtualisation software, Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, has had a bit of an upgrade, now offering both more CPU and RAM capacity as well as the ability to run Windows 7.

Parallels is preparing a new virtualisation tool that will let users continue to run Windows XP applications on Windows 7 systems. The move will make the software a direct competitor for Microsoft's recently announced Windows XP Mode.

Red Hat has released the latest version of its Fedora open source operating system and has added new video, virtualisation and networking support..