At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in April, Microsoft said it was leaning toward eliminating your virtualization server software as a stand-alone product in the future. Can you flesh out any more details on the plans? Today, we have a product called Virtual Server that sits on top of Windows and provides virtualization capabilities. In the future, we're going to build the hypervisor and the virtualization stack into Windows. So while it's a whole new set of technologies, much, if not all, of what Virtual Server does today goes into the operating system. It becomes an operating system feature. At the same time, we're building a whole set of management services that will exist under [our] System Center [product line]. I do think that this is going to be a new product.
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