05.23.06
By Jeffrey Burt

Microsoft announced that it will have a beta version of its upcoming hypervisor virtualization technology ready by the end of 2006, and will release to manufacturing a final version within six months of the release of its Windows Server "Longhorn" operating system RTM.

Microsoft made the announcements May 22 during the first day of its WinHec conference in Seattle.

Along with the hypervisor news, Microsoft also announced that a beta version of its System Center Virtual Machine Manager—formerly codenamed "Carmine"—will be released within the next three months, and that it also intends to buy application virtualization company Softricity.

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