Microsoft says Virtual Machine Manager due by year-end

Microsoft this week said development of its virtualization management tool would be complete in 30 days and reiterated that it would ship sometime during the last three months of this year as promised.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is the company's first tool for managing its recently released Hyper-V platform, along with virtualization environments from VMware.

"We will allow those customers who have made that investment in another technology competitor's hardware and software to manage their environment and our environment at the same time," said Kevin Turner, the company's COO, in July.