If Microsoft hadn't cancelled its company picnic this year, one could safely assume that a tug-of-war between the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 development teams would've had a special kind of intensity. That's because the former has garnered all the attention recently, while the latter has kept a much lower profile.
But Windows Server 2008 R2 has the potential to shape Microsoft's business in more far-reaching ways than Windows 7, and could finally put Microsoft on equal footing with competitors in a virtualization market that shows no sign of cooling.
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