Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

Backing up client computers in Windows Server Essentials is a key step in safeguarding valuable data and maintaining smooth operations. Administrators can easily configure automated backups, monitor ...

As the Windows client environment has become richer and more powerful over the years, it has become more difficult to manage. Even on a stable and reliable version of Windows--meaning Windows 2000 or ...

(1) Running a program in a user's machine. Contrast with processing in a server. (2) Using a computer like a terminal with limited application processing. See thin client. (3) Users at computers ...

His sale of his company's storied personal computer division may be the strongest indication that Sam Palmisano believes the PC's status as a business computing tool is in decline. But if there were ...