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1] Occupies massive disk space Even having one operating system on our PC occupies a lot of disk space. In dual-booting, we need to have two operating systems that occupy a major chunk of your disk.

While it can be cost-effective to have multiple operating systems in the long run, in the short-term it can be cost-prohibitive to establish a system based on more than one operating system. While ...

With virtualization, a single computer can run multiple operating systems, each running concurrently in its own virtual machine. These virtual machines are completely isolated from the host system ...

Dual booting, which involves separating your drive into two sections called partitions, essentially lets you run two operating systems on one computer completely separate from one another.

I've long been a big fan of multitasking. These days, though, I find myself running not only several programs at a time but multiple operating systems as well. Admittedly, as a technology reviewer ...

If the answer seems obvious, then it should be equally obvious that putting not one but two operating systems on the same device will make the user experience a complicated mess.

Formerly, Hyper-V required that a virtualized operating system instance be shut down, moved, then restarted, which is rather inconvenient for production servers.

A security hole in a widely used communication protocol that was developed by Sun Microsystems could leave systems made by numerous vendors open to attack.