Microsoft Thursday did something it rarely does. The company released a beta for a long-awaited technology — in this case its Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology Hyper-V — ahead of schedule.

Microsoft, famous for its product delays, has taken a different approach with its latest virtualization offering: instead of multiple delays, it's pushing up delivery deadlines. The Redmond, WA-based ...

New technology allows for closer interoperability between Windows and Linux than we've seen in the past, and also puts it at loggerheads with technology offered by VMware, whose virtualization ...

During Microsoft's TechEd IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain, the company finally named its upcoming hypervisor virtualization platform. What was once code-named Viridian and then announced as ...

Whatever you think about Microsoft, they do know how to keep the hype machine at maximum momentum for months. Windows Server 2008 will be officially launched in February, but announcements continue to ...

However, they said customer acceptance of the new Microsoft technology combined with how the vendor advances technology has the potential to impact VMware et al over time. Microsoft Corp., Redmond, ...

Things are heating up in the hypervisor and virtualization software space with Microsoft’s release of the Hyper-V within Windows Server 2008 and adding VMware support to Microsoft System Center ...