A desktop virtualization alternative

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Mar 13, 20071 min

Platforms: If you’re looking for desktop virtualization and don’t want to leave the Microsoft world — but know that Virtual PC 2007’s “lackluster performance and limited feature set” won’t work for you — there is still an option. “Though not marketed as a desktop virtualization solution, Virtual Server 2005 R2 (SP1) works quite well under Windows XP and Windows Vista,” Randall Kennedy in this Enterprise Desktop post. “It’s also blazingly fast.”

Slideshow: Cell phones, while indispensable tools, are enough to drive most of us crazy. Particularly when other people are using them. There are, however, 10 commandments of cell phone etiquette. Thou shalt not dial while driving is the first. Don’t get too attached to it, either. And never bring it into the bathroom. Related: Readers weigh in on commandments of their own.

Best of the blogs: The GirdWorks Metascheduler within Globus has moved from incubation into the full Globus project stage. “Given that similar processes are used in the enterprise space this is an indicator that dev.globus considers itself a contender in more than the research and academic spaces of which it is commonly associated,” Greg Nawrocki states in Six new Globus incubator projects.