Reversing earlier plans, Microsoft said Monday that it will sell its new virtualization technology separately from its Windows Server operating system, in addition to as a bundle. The software maker ...

Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

Microsoft has postponed a handful of its "Viridian" hypervisor features in order to maintain its goal of delivering the technology as an add-on to Longhorn Server within 180 days of Longhorn Server's ...

The Viridian beta originally was slated to be available for testing in the first half of the year. The Viridian code is one of the most significant new features in the server as Microsoft's response ...

“I used to enjoy covering VMware,” laments Ashlee Vance in a blog posting at the Channel Register. “In the good old days, CEO Diane Greene would stop by the office to chat about everything, … She ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Now we know a little more about the new Microsoft hypervisor that is part of the Azure cloud computing initiative. Little has been known or reported up to this point, but Microsoft has provided me ...

Core Security Technologies has discovered a flaw in Microsoft's Virtual PC hypervisor that can be used by an attacker to cheat built-in, advanced security features in Windows. The flaw in the memory ...

Microsoft is ramping up a new line of virtualization certifications to go hand-in-hand with its release of the Hyper-V server virtualization technology. The Windows Server Virtualization exam is now ...