Virtual Server 2005 News and Reviews

Information Week (July 18, 2006): Microsoft announced today it will team up with open source virtualization supplier XenSource to run Linux virtual machines under its Windows Longhorn Server.

PressPass (July 17, 2006): Microsoft Corp. and XenSource Inc. today announced they will cooperate on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft Windows hypervisor technology-based Windows Server virtualization.

CRN (April 17, 2006): Virtual Server brings a great deal of leverage to channel players and can even be used as a tool to move users off of Microsoft’s operating systems.

CRN (May 8, 2006): Thanks to the free version of Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 R2, CRN has been able to further simplify their test-system deployment process while consolidating systems.

CRN (April 17, 2006): Virtual Server brings a great deal of leverage to channel players and can even be used as a tool to move users off of Microsoft’s operating systems. CRN Test Center engineers put that theory to the test by setting up a Virtual Server system that runs non-Microsoft OSes.

eWeek (February 20, 2006): Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2 enables administrators to more fully use the Windows server hardware in their care by running multiple operating system instances on a single box.

Windows IT Pro (September 1, 2005): Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 was named a winner in the Virtualization Software category of the 2005 Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Awards.

InfoWorld (December 8, 2005): Virtual PC was nice for Windows power users. But for developers and sys admins testing against specific OS images and doing similar business-oriented tasks, Virtual Server 2005 is the only thing out of Redmond that might make us stray from VMware.

Continuity Central (December 2005): Jason Buffington, CBCP and Microsoft MVP, provides an overview of virtualization and its business continuity uses.

CRN (October 24, 2005): Microsoft has made significant licensing changes to address the growing mix of virtual machines and traditional server software running in the data center.

Network World (October 17, 2005): Microsoft's new virtualization licensing model for its Windows Server System could dramatically lower costs for users and help advance industry efforts to define how software should be licensed as virtualization takes off on corporate networks.

eWeek (October 10, 2005): Microsoft Corp. is simplifying the licensing for Windows Server System products that are used in virtual machine environments as it continues to try to drive customers toward self-managing dynamic systems.

InformationWeek (October 10, 2005): Microsoft is altering its licensing terms for Windows Server System software running on 'virtual machine' servers.

PressPass (May 22, 2006): Senior vice-president Bob Muglia provides updates on Microsoft’s virtualization strategy and product road map, including Windows Server virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

(April 3rd, 2006): PressPass sat down with Zane Adam, director of product marketing in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft, to discuss the company’s efforts to make server virtualization technology more accessible, manageable and affordable.

(March 7, 2006): Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corp. today outlined plans to connect computer network management technologies and also to work together to advance promising virtualization technology that will bring businesses new capabilities and cost savings.

(October 10, 2005): Today Microsoft unveiled new licensing policies for virtualized computing, and the industry announced support for Microsoft investments in virtualization.

InformationWeek (Charles Babcock, April 10, 2006) Microsoft stunned LinuxWorld attendees last week by pledging to support Linux virtual machines on its Virtual Server and revealing free virtual machine additions for Red Hat Linux and Novell SUSE Linux. It wasn't the only dogs-playing-with-cats kind of moment last week: Apple offered up software to let Windows run on Intel-based Macs.

NewsFactor.com (Jay Wrolstad, April 5, 2006) Microsoft is pushing further into the virtualization realm, announcing that its Virtual Server 2005 R2 product will provide support for Linux. In addition, the company is now offering the software as a free download. Virtualization is widely recognized as a way companies can slash I.T. infrastructure costs. By using the technology, I.T. administrators can replace larger, mostly unused servers with smaller, efficient machines that run multiple operating systems.

CNET News.com (Martin LaMonica, April 2, 2006) Microsoft will support customers who chose to run Linux with Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2, software for running multiple operating systems on one machine. In addition, the company on Monday said that it has now made Virtual Server 2005 R2--which the company had charged either $99 for up to four physical processors or $199 for an unlimited number of processors--a free download. The announcements were made in conjunction with the LinuxWorld conference in Boston this week.