Windows 8: Making VirtualBox and Hyper-V Play Nice

I got a new shiny this week (actually arrived on Friday, but since I was heading to Roanoke Code Camp over the weekend, I did not have time to set it up before I left). As an aside, pictures don't do this machine justice…I've always thought that ThinkPad was synonymous with chunky business laptops with squared edges, and a look only a CPA could love (sorry CPAs, not offense meant). The Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch is flat gorgeous. And fast. more

Tags: Virtual Machines, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Tips and Tricks

May 20, 2011

New Internet Explorer VMs for App Compatibility

As many of you may be aware, you can only have one version of Internet Explorer installed at any given time (the exception being that the IE Platform Previews are able to install side-by-side with a released version of IE). Given this, Microsoft has for some time provided virtual machines for the purposes of testing applications against different versions of Internet Explorer. more

Tags: App Compat, Internet Explorer, Virtual Machines