Virtual Machines

The IE9 Platform Preview includes the first release of the new JavaScript engine. This new engine compiles JavaScript source code into high-quality native machine code. It also has a new fast interpreter for sequentially executing script on traditional web pages and contains…

Lars Bak is a virtual machine master. He and team have created a Javascript VM, V8, that takes Javascript syntax and produces optimized machine code directly. The result is very performant execution of Javascript. How does V8 work, exactly? What are the basic design decisions that have gone into…

CLR Architect Vance Morrison has been very busy working on the future of the CLR, especially as it relates to execution performance and the type system. Some of his latest work is present in the upcoming 4th version of the virtual machine that powers all things .NET, CLR 4, which ships with Visual…

Ever wonder how virtualization works? Where is it used? What role could virtualization play in the future of Windows, for example? How will it evolve over time?We recently met with some of the Microsoft Virtualization people to find some answers to these questions and learn a whole lot about…

Having been inspired by the demonstration that Jeff Woolsey performed at WinHec 2006 on Windows Server virtualization, Michael Murphy and Kevin Remde interview him on exciting new features.  Among others, a few of the topics that Jeff discusses in this conversation are the benefits of…

Ian Carmichael has been working on the CLR team since before Microsoft came up with the .NET branding for our managed platform and the virtual machine that powers it all, the Common Language Runtime. Well, we're getting close to the third major release of the CLR, CLR 4 (V3 was really a…

What's running on Ben Armstrong's machine? Linux? Yes! BeOS? Yes! OS/2? Yes! Windows 95? Yes! Microsoft Bob? Yes! Free BSD? Yes! And about 600 other operating systems. Come and meet the Virtual Machine folks (today you'll meet Ben, who's a program manager on the Virtual PC team, tomorrow you'll…

When you buy Windows 7 (pro or ultimate) you get Windows XP "virtualized" for free. What this means that if you are web developer you can finally have IE6, IE7, IE8 all running alongside each other as hardware support virtual applications. More details at  bit.ly/virtualXP

Virtual PC (VPC) is truly a developer's and tester's best friend. Do you want to run a PC in a Window? Imagine having a virtual image for any product in Beta that does not impact your host machine. For those that are familiar with VPC, you might find some of the settings of interest and how…

In this video, you will find tools to help solve these common developer challenges… Maintaining the truth and privacy of your data while making changes to the schema Another report project? Setting up a virtual playground for testing and development Building a web site from scratch in minutes…