With Server 2008 going RTM last week, Microsoft is now on the clock to deliver the long awaited Hyper-V. They have told us we should see a finished product within 180 days from the Server 2008 launch (coming early March). Stay tuned for some in-depth reviews of the Hyper-V RC leading up to the release.
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Microsoft is ready to ramp up its VDI game and it just bought Calista Technologies to help get it there. Calista owns the industry-first and patent pending virtual GPU technology that takes the end-user experience on virtual desktops to the next level. Calista provides support for all file and streaming [...]
Microsoft’s “new and improved” licensing model for Windows Vista has been inexplicable and hard to understand right from the beginning. But basically, if you were just catching up, it was worded in such a way that in order to run Windows Vista in a virtual environment you had to be running Business or Ultimate Edition. [...]