Enterprises are likely to hold off deploying Windows Server 2008
until the final hypervisor product, known as Hyper-V, is made available
sometime in the next six months, analysts say.
Microsoft, which will release the latest update to its server software at an event here Feb. 27 titled "Heroes happen {here}," has pushed back the release of
Hyper-V and cut some of the features originally planned.
While Windows Server 2008 will contain the beta bits for Hyper-V, the final product will be made
available as an add-on later in 2008. But that decision is likely to delay
enterprise adoptions of the new server.