Microsoft delays virtualization beta debut

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I speculate the delay is related to speed. Microsoft Linux (AKA Suse Linux) was recently improved so that there is little noticeable speed loss of a Microsoft Windows OS product running virtually on top of Linux. I understand that this had been a problem.

Linux, of course, has benefited from hardware manufacturer contributions to Open Source. Open Source will always be a faster way for hardware manufactures to make certain that the features in hardware they provide (like especially multi-processors, multi-cores and buss elimination but also virtualization machine code) get taken advantage of by the operating system product. Paying Microsoft to implement advantages in its proprietary code is always going to be slow and tedious even with sufficient budget. Plus you have no way of verifying that the implementation is proper and not designed for the benefit of your competitor.

Hence IT professionals worth their fees recommend running Microsoft Linux as the base (closest to hardware) operating system and then virtualizing Microsoft OS's on top of that if desired.

This has to be troublesome to Microsoft management of the old monopoly school. It must be just hell on Ballmer and Smith because this is a glaring expose on their management failure. Microsoft could have been prepared for this. It is not like Intel and AMD weren't telling them what needed to be done, even trying to pay them to do it.

Citrix recently purchased a virtulization company. Because of Ballmer and Smith, there will never again be an "all Microsoft Windows" shop.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 04/12/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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