Microsoft, VMware Team on Windows 10 Push
September 01 2015 - 3:10PM
Dow Jones News
Rivals Microsoft Corp. and VMware Inc. are teaming up to help
businesses manage their Windows applications using VMware
technology.
Executives from each company announced the alliance at a VMware
conference Tuesday in San Francisco.
VMware said it is introducing software that is targeted at
businesses seeking to distribute and manage their corporate
applications with Windows 10, the newest version of Microsoft's
operating system for personal computers and other devices. The new
VMware software was developed in part by AirWatch, the
mobile-device-management company that VMware bought last year for
about $1.5 billion.
The collaboration between the two longtime rivals shows the
sometimes strange bedfellows in the technology industry as demands
of consumers and businesses shift. VMware and Microsoft battle
fiercely over big markets such as software "virtualization" for
computer servers, and Microsoft also offers its own
device-management software that competes with AirWatch.
"There is overlap between our two products, but that doesn't
matter," VMware Executive Vice President Sanjay Poonen said at the
San Francisco conference.
Write to Shira Ovide at shira.ovide@wsj.com
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