SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to its Virtual Server plans, announcing it will shift its next update of the software from a maintenance release to a paid upgrade. The Redmond, ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to ...

Microsoft has postponed a handful of its "Viridian" hypervisor features in order to maintain its goal of delivering the technology as an add-on to Longhorn Server within 180 days of Longhorn Server's ...

Microsoft has clarified how licensing for its current version of Windows Server works when paired with virtualization software. However, customers may face a whole new set of licensing rules once the ...

Microsoft's Server and Tools Business did the virtual conference thing for industry analysts last week. Fellow analyst Judith Hurwitz ably describes the limitations of this format. I concur with much ...

Microsoft Corp. has released a white paper clarifying how licensing for its current version of Windows Server works when paired with virtualization software. However, customers may face a whole new ...

If you haven't had the opportunity to see Microsoft's next generation virtualization hypervisor platform, you are in luck. Jeff Woolsey, a lead program manager on the Windows virtualization team, ...

Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

Microsoft is ramping up a new line of virtualization certifications to go hand-in-hand with its release of the Hyper-V server virtualization technology. The Windows Server Virtualization exam is now ...

A month after Microsoft Corp. pushed back the beta release of the Windows Server virtualization software, code-named Viridian, the company today dropped several key features to make its final deadline ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

As Microsoft readies Hyper-V, the new hypervisor software that forms the foundation for virtualization in Windows Server 2008, VMware is finally facing some real competition in the Windows server ...