Last week my colleague Mihaita Bamburic explained how to install the freshly released Windows 8.1 in VMware Player and Workstation, and I wanted to follow that up by showing how to set up the new OS ...

Now that Windows 10 is officially available, there’s a good chance you’ll be updating your existing PCs to the new OS. There are reasons for and against doing this of course. If you’re not quite ready ...

Internet Explorer may seem like a forgotten relic for most Mac owners, but for some, old flames die hard. Microsoft’s Web browser quickly faded from popularity on Apple rigs starting in 2003, when ...

Don’t have a dedicated PC on which to install Windows 8? No problem. Just install the OS virtually on an existing PC using a free virtual machine utility. Various VM applications will let you install ...

I have over seven years of experience covering Microsoft, Surface, Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS news and rumors for sites like Digital Trends and OnMSFT. I also write laptop reviews and how-to guides.

A few months back, I posted an article about setting up a small home server. I’ve been playing around with the setup of that machine lately, and rather than breaking the working system, I’ve been ...

VirtualBox is software that runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, capable of full virtualization. Full virtualization allows VirtualBox to run OSes entirely different than the OS it is running on ...

If you find yourself with a mismatched VirtualBox and VirtualBox Extension Pack release, such that VirtualBox itself cannot resolve, Jack Wallen shows you how to fix this from the command line.