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    Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualisation technology.

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    Backing off earlier plans, company says customers will be able to buy the virtualisation technology without committing to Windows Server.

  • Windows Server 2008 test release due next week

    Microsoft will release the first near-final version of its Windows Server 2008 operating system as early as next week.

  • Virtualisation: Is it all about the hardware, or the OS?

    The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system.

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    Citrix has made an unexpected move into the virtualisation market with its intended US$500 million acquisition of XenSource.

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