Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...

But for many partners, the virtualization features of the next Windows Server are the biggest game changer. "Virtualization is the next big thing and it's what makes utility computing possible. In ...

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Microsoft’s virtualization strategy is expected to take center stage during the second week of Microsoft’s TechEd conference series in Orlando. At TechEd North America 2008 IT Professionals, Microsoft ...

Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as ...

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Microsoft is ramping up a new line of virtualization certifications to go hand-in-hand with its release of the Hyper-V server virtualization technology. The Windows Server Virtualization exam is now ...

Microsoft has postponed a handful of its "Viridian" hypervisor features in order to maintain its goal of delivering the technology as an add-on to Longhorn Server within 180 days of Longhorn Server's ...

Microsoft's Server and Tools Business did the virtual conference thing for industry analysts last week. Fellow analyst Judith Hurwitz ably describes the limitations of this format. I concur with much ...

Bolstered by the June launch of its Hyper-V virtualization software, Microsoft Corp. grabbed nearly a quarter of the fast-growing x86 server virtualization market in the second quarter, market ...

Virtualization watchers have speculated for years when Microsoft would throw a low-cost blow at arch-rival VMware in the desktop virtualization fight. This week, Microsoft delivered the punch via a ...