Microsoft Bangs the Virtual Drum

In what is bound to be only the first round in loud and endless rolling thunder, Microsoft officially released virtualization. Nothing earthshaking was new. The standalone bare metal hypervisor was released earlier than most expected. Hyper-VMotion was demonstrated and seemed to work. Mostly I think it was Microsoft starting to show some of their powerful assets like customers, business partners and the ability to spend $100M on marketing (or whatever) when they want to. As we've been saying for some time -- Game on! VMware better forget the healthy and eco-friendly lifestyle and learn quickly to be street fighters (maybe Oracle will buy VMW -- that would make the game fun!)