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Submission + - Microsoft: "Shipping is a Feature Too"

Submitted by bughouse26 on Thursday May 10, 2007 @08:50PM

bughouse26 writes: "REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the initial version of its "Viridian" hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualization technology."

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+cuts+Windows+virtual ization+features/2100-1016_3-6182852.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/10/microsoft_ viridian_thinned/

Submission + - Microsoft backpedals on Viridian virtualization

Submitted by

virtualization_dork

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @02:19PM

virtualization_dork writes: "TechTarget has the story — Microsoft's Windows Server Virtualization software, code named 'Viridian' will ship with Longhorn in the second half of this year, but stripped of many important features like live migration (think VMware's VMotion,) hot adds and support for certain processors. Read the story now: Microsoft backpedals on 'Viridian' virtualization."

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