Virtualisation is ideal for trying out a new operating system. Instead of installing the OS onto a live machine and potentially overwriting, or generally messing up a working OS, virtualisation leaves your current installation untouched. No worrying about a messed up MBR, freeing up space on your drives for a new partition or having to route around for drivers just to get back online. Virtualisation is a lot faster than it once was as well. […]
Windows 8
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Microsoft’s confirmation that client versions of Windows 8 will include its Hyper-V hypervisor could turn out to be one of the most interesting and significant aspects of the upcoming platform. With a baked-in Type 1 hypervisor, various kinds of use cases that have been mooted for virtualisation will become possible, such as running separate corporate and personal desktop environments side by side simultaneously on the same machine. This kind of virtualisation is now familiar on […]