Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape

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Don't they get it?

?Bob Muglia, senior vice president in the Windows Server Division, said at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference here that the software will be "built directly in Windows and will allow companies to virtualize multiple operating systems."

By building it into the damn operating system they will hinder performance. Haven't they figured this out yet? To top it off it will be just one more way to ensure they lock you into their solution only!

?Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first mentioned the hypervisor plans in April at the company's Management Summit conference. Such software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, a feature that's useful for consolidating servers in order to save money, and for extracting as much work as possible from a single system. ?

Linux and VMWare do this already, so does Linux and Xen. Hell even Microsoft's Windows and VMWare does this already! And it's already mature and proven.

?Muglia said the hypervisor software will be delivered in 2007, following the debut of Longhorn Server. The new software will take advantage of virtualization technology coming from chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices next year, Muglia said.?

Like everything else... we'll believe it when we see it.

?The software will differ from Microsoft's existing Virtual Server product, Muglia said. That product runs on top of Windows and can run multiple Windows sessions. A recent update to Virtual Server allows companies to run Linux and other operating systems as well. ?

Bet you 10 dollars to a donut that it will run Linux, FreeBSD or anything that is not Microsoft in a crippled state!

?The new software will instead be built directly into Windows. "We will build a thin hypervisor that sits on top of the hardware and virtualizes resources like CPU and memory, so it has the ability to create OS sessions," Muglia said.
"One of those sessions will have the virtualization stack built into it to do device assignment and start and stop virtual sessions," he said. "It will have a version of Windows but will typically be a stripped-down version. That will control the other sessions, which can be Windows, Linux and anything that runs on x86 hardware such as Solaris or Linux."?

Read: We can use DRM to control you and what you do.

Bottom line is they are reaching. Microsoft's position in the whole scheme of things is in jeopardy and they are reaching for any market they can to maintain their monopoly position. This seems to me to be another frantic bid to stay afloat in an ever dangerous ocean.

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