VMworld Europe 2008 - will cost be a factor?

We'll be a gold sponsor at VMworld Europe next week. I'm part of the crew headed to Cannes (along with Jeff Woolsey and Mike Neil and others) to meet with customers, partners, bloggers. We'll demo Hyper-V beta, SCVMM 2007, Terminal Services...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on February 23, 2008.

Hyper-V Extensibility and APIs...

Virtualization Nation, It's been a while since my last post (sorry about that), but ever since we released the Hyper-V Beta a few months ago, the feedback over Hyper-V is off the charts. We're glad that folks are able to easily evaluate Hyper-V and...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on February 22, 2008.

Calista joins the Microsoft virtualization product lineup

Hi, my name is Neal Margulis, and I am the founder of Calista Technologies, the developers of a unique desktop virtualization solution that dramatically enhances the end user experience with virtualized desktops. Today is an exciting day for me as we...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on January 22, 2008.

Managing VMware

If you haven't already, I recommend reading Rakesh's post on why the System Center team decided to build out V2 of SCVMM so that customers can manage VMware ESX Server and VI3. Here's an excerpt: Flexibility in...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on January 14, 2008.

Happy holidays! windows server 2008 RC1 with hyper-v beta now available!

Greetings! Jeff Woolsey here from the virtualization team. We have some big news today! We just released the Windows Hyper-V BETA! The Hyper-V beta is a major step forward from the Preview release we provided just a couple...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on December 13, 2007.

Windows Virtualization Hypercall APIs available via open specification promise!

Greetings! Jeff Woolsey here from the virtualization team and I've got some big news. Here's the official announcement: Microsoft today announced that it will extend the Open Specification Promise to the hypercall application programmer’s interface...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on October 24, 2007.

Windows Server 2008 RC0/Virtualization CTP FAQ

Greeting folks, Jeff Woolsey here from the Virtualization team. It’s been a busy week at Microsoft and the Windows Server 2008 RC0 release is off to a great start! If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can find it here:...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 28, 2007.

Microsoft Virtualization and Virtual PC 2007

Greetings! I’m Jeff Woolsey, a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Virtualization. I’ve worked on virtualization technology for over ten years such as Virtual PC for Mac, Virtual PC for Windows and Virtual Server. These days I...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 23, 2007.

Windows Server Virtualization Security Discussion at Black Hat

Greetings! An important heads up about Black Hat next week in Las Vegas. For those of you who don’t know what Black Hat is, Black Hat bills itself as a security convention that puts you face to face with people on the cutting edge of network...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 23, 2007.

Virtual Server or Virtual PC?

In my first couple of blogs, I wanted to remind everyone of the recent release of Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. I received feedback asking about some of the differences between the two and compatibility of virtual machines between...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 23, 2007.