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 ...

Here's the basic question: where does the hypervisor--the software layer that underpins server virtualization--live and who owns it? Is it just part of the server or is it just part of the operating ...

Simon Crosby previously said on my podcast that the hypervisor should be free and now we know he really means it, and more. (Check out Simon’s most recent podcast appearance.) Just as Microsoft’s ...