Hyper-V RC1 Released by Microsoft

Microsoft's virtualization platform, Hyper-V RC1, gains support for new Windows guest OS.

By John Fontana

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When Hyper-V ships, Microsoft will be providing users a third hypervisor option to go along with those already available from VMware and Xen-based derivatives marketed by Citrix, Oracle, Red Hat and Novell.

Hypervisor technology is a base technology layer that acts as the virtualization foundation for guest operating systems.

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