Microsoft is working hard to gin up some excitement about its "virtualization launch" event on Sept. 8. Given that virtualization has been out of the paddock for quite a while and that Microsoft's own hypervisor is actually out on the market, it's hard to figure why Microsoft should be re-launching virtualization as a concept.
The lead news items at the Microsoft launch event will be Hyper-V (which apparently hasn't been announced enough, even though it's already shipping) and Virtual Machine Manager 2008, which is the key part still missing from Microsoft's virtualization puzzle.
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