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• OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad

  By Galen Gruman | 07 February, 2012 22:11

  Demos, like appearances, can be deceiving. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, one of the media hits was OnLive Desktop, a service that provisions a Windows 7 desktop environment that includes Microsoft Office 2010 to the iPad over an Internet connection. For many, the idea of being able to run the full Office suite is very appealing, given some of the limitations of the iPad's native office productivity tools such as Apple iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers), Quickoffice, and Documents to Go.

• Java tops C in language popularity assessment -- but not by much

  By Paul Krill | 07 February, 2012 07:54

  Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

• The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services

  By Peter Wayner | 09 January, 2012 22:11

  Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a chance of creating something great this year, it only makes sense to pause and celebrate what went right in 2011.

• VDI shoot-out: Citrix XenDesktop 5.5

  By Keith Schultz | 15 December, 2011 02:41

  Certainly the most flexible VDI solution I've worked with, Citrix XenDesktop is the model of compatibility coupled with excellent capabilities. XenDesktop not only works with Citrix XenServer, but also runs on top of other vendors' hypervisors.

• VDI shoot-out: VMware View 5

  By Keith Schultz | 15 December, 2011 02:31

  An excellent platform for building an enterprise VDI solution, VMware View 5 takes advantage of all the features, services, and fault tolerance built into VMware's flagship vSphere hypervisor.

• Introducing Windows Server 8: The InfoWorld special report

  By InfoWorld staff | 15 December, 2011 02:15

  Hailed as one of Microsoft's broadest, deepest releases, Windows Server 8 will replace the current version of the OS, Windows Server 2008, in 2012 about the same time the new companion desktop OS, Windows 8, is released. Microsoft has a broad set of goals to reach with this release, such as cloud compatibility and automation of routine tasks across multiple machines. The new release also benefits from Microsoft's work building out its own Azure cloud service. Many technologies developed for the server were tested in the cloud, and many technologies developed for Azure were then imported back to the server.

• VDI shoot-out: Citrix XenDesktop vs. VMware View

  By Keith Schultz | 14 December, 2011 22:14

  More than 20 years ago, the desktop revolution swept across the land, ushering in a new paradigm of computing, taking processing away from a centralized host, and moving it to personal computers at the edge of the network. With VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), as the saying goes, what's old is new again. Using virtualization, IT now has the ability to bring those distinct computing platforms back under one roof, while also providing for greater control and flexibility of user access.

• InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

  By InfoWorld staff | 21 November, 2011 22:10

  Everyone is a trend watcher. But at a certain point, to determine which trends will actually weave their way into the fabric of business computing, you need to first take a hard look at the technologies that gave life to the latest buzz phrases.

• Nine wickedly helpful Web sites for Windows administrators

  By Ron Barrett | 30 September, 2008 08:52

  Windows Web sites worth a look