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Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:05PM from the right-price dept.

liliafan writes "In an effort to gain a market majority over VMware Microsoft announced it is giving Virtual Server away for free, additionally they will provide customer support for Linux. In a related move VMware have opened their partition file format to the community, aggressive and suprising moves in the virtualisation market."

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Really, now... (Score:5, Funny)

by TechnoGuyRob ( 926031 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:06PM (#15053767) Homepage

That does it, Slashdot. April Fools is OVER.

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in related news... (Score:4, Funny)

by clanky ( 871867 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:09PM (#15053786) Homepage

microsoft has also started offering its own proprietary air for free, in an attempt to muscle out the Earth's atmosphere from its traditional strength position in the marketplace.

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Upgrade to Windows Vista (Score:4, Funny)

by Frosty Piss ( 770223 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:10PM (#15053794)

additionally they will provide customer support for Linux.
And what will their standard answer be? "Upgrade to Windows Vista"?

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Excellent! (Score:0, Funny)

by Joey Patterson ( 547891 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:10PM (#15053796)

Now I can emulate DOS within Linux inside Mac System 6 on Windows 2000 Professional running in VMWare Workstation running on Windows Vista Interim Build 5342 running on Virtual PC running inside Windows Server 2003 via the Citrix connection on the server at work! w00t!

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I will now hold my breath... (Score:3, Funny)

by 14erCleaner ( 745600 ) writes: <FourteenerCleaner@yahoo.com> on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:12PM (#15053805) Homepage Journal

Until the US Justice Department stops this move by Microsoft on anti-trust grounds.
OK, I changed my mind.

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Microsoft Virtualization is the key to the future (Score:5, Funny)

by jimmyhat3939 ( 931746 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:13PM (#15053817) Homepage

I'm really glad they're doing this. Other virtualizations systems that I've seen/tried really can't offer the full set of APIs and functionalities that a real Microsoft product offers. For example, things like Wine can't offer the full __DllRegisterExpiryCacheDelayTwelveSeven() functionality.
Same goes for CPU-based stuff, like Virtual-PC. They just don't run Windows properly. The thing is, since Microsoft has the only operating system out there that is largely, or even majority, undocumented, it makes sense for them to provide the virtualization software. That way they can make it work on their own undocumented platform, while using other platforms' APIs to permit easy access to Linux, OSX, etc.
This is a win-win-win for everyone!

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Re:Really, now... (Score:3, Funny)

by slo_learner ( 729232 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:14PM (#15053821)

April fools is over on May 1 or when we run out of fools, which ever comes first.

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Sorry, Microsoft, we know your tricks. (Score:5, Funny)

by Spy der Mann ( 805235 ) writes: <spydermann.slash ... m ['mai' in gap]> on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:15PM (#15053830) Homepage Journal

When you gave away MS Internet Explorer for free, many of us fell for it. Now we know better.

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Re:Really, now... (Score:3, Funny)

by kimvette ( 919543 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:19PM (#15053846) Homepage Journal

All you had to say was May 1. :)

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Re:well... (Score:4, Funny)

by TheCarp ( 96830 ) * writes: <sjc@NospAM.carpanet.net> on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:25PM (#15053869) Homepage

Shit, why are you bothering me? _I_ knew that.

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Re:wow, more echoes from the past (Score:3, Funny)

by schon ( 31600 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:34PM (#15053919)

MS has very little to loose.

I disagree. Vista is a monster of Godzilla proportions, and if they loosed that on the world, they could wreak some major damage.

MS has a lot to loose, and they have nothing to lose by doing it!

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Re:Sorry, Microsoft, we know your tricks. (Score:2, Funny)

by Dysproxia ( 584031 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:40PM (#15053953)

If you think giving software away for free is bad, wait till you hear what the open source community has been doing!

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Nice timing (Score:2, Funny)

by Jsutton1027w ( 757650 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:41PM (#15053965) Homepage

It seems like a good time for VMWare to open up it's disk format, now that Qemu has it completely reverse-engineered. :)

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In related news (Score:3, Funny)

by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @06:46PM (#15054004)

dogs and cats where found living together while mass hysteria ensued.

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Yup ... (Score:5, Funny)

by hotspotbloc ( 767418 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @07:02PM (#15054091) Homepage Journal

The first hit is always free. =)

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Re:I will now hold my breath... (Score:4, Funny)

by Cheapy ( 809643 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @07:11PM (#15054146)

The U.S. has a Justice department?

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Re:in related news... (Score:3, Funny)

by dhart ( 1261 ) * writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @07:20PM (#15054200)

When asked for a comment, an anonymous Microsoft developer stated "I know that it's ancient history, but some of us were really sorry for that 'cut off their air supply' comment... long live Netscape!"

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The other relevent quip... (Score:3, Funny)

by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @07:37PM (#15054284) Homepage Journal

Didn't Nostrodamus predict this?

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Re:Really, now... (Score:3, Funny)

by Mr2cents ( 323101 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @08:34PM (#15054584)

To be sure, someone please call Satan and ask if it's getting cold down there..

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Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday April 03, 2006 @10:41PM (#15055133)

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