Microsoft releases Hyper-V beta 'early'

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 14 December 2007 10:44

Opinion and Analysis

Virtualisation is true multitasking with a great deal more redundancy and reliability, and soon, we’ll all be running virtualised solutions, with even Microsoft’s next operating system, Microsoft 7, being said to include a virtualisation feature to guarantee compatibility with previous software while being able to offer brand new features, much as Apple achieved with the OS 9 Classic mode for years with earlier versions of OS X 10.

Now the virtualisation industry can take us to the next level, and deliver users the additional power that ever more advanced processors, disk and memory storage give us all, stopping it from being taken up by the operating system alone, as even companies such as Novell, Sun and Oracle get into the virtualisation game.

The world of Intel giveth with a new processor and Microsoft taketh away with a new operating system is over in a world of rapidly advancing multi-core computing, which still offers us more computing power than most software and operating systems know how to take full advantage of.

Virtualisation technology is helping users to close the gap and use the full power of their computing infrastructure, and there’s nothing wrong with that.