Microsoft Embraces "Bring Your Own Laptop" Model

You’ve heard of BYOB, now get ready for Bring Your Own Laptop. There’s a small but growing trend in which companies are choosing to give employees money toward their personal laptop, rather than providing a company-issued portable. British Petroleum is among the companies trying the approach.

One of the technologies making that possible is desktop virtualization, which allows companies to put their software or even an entire corporate image onto a device without having to worry about the fact that it doesn’t control the entire laptop. Basically, the corporate stuff can run in a sandbox, with personal data and programs running alongside–but not intermingling with–the business processes.

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