Microsoft moves deeper into virtualisation
Microsoft on Monday in the United States updated its plans for new virtualisation software and said it will expand its lineup through an acquisition. The company will begin testing its hypervisor software, developed under the code name Viridian, by year's end, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server and Tools business, told ZDNet Australia sister site CNET News.com. The software will ship within six months of Longhorn Server, the next major release of the company's server operating system, due in the second half of next year.
Microsoft had earlier indicated that Viridian would ship much later than Longhorn Server. Muglia said the software was always intended to ship in the "Longhorn time frame, but nobody knew what that meant. We're now saying within 180 days of Longhorn Server, and we'll know more as it enters beta testing," he said.
