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Recent Hyper-V Announcement

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Hyper-V is {Here}!

Microsoft announced availability today of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualisation technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. You are able to download Hyper-V at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V. Customers who have deployed Windows Server 2008 can receive Hyper-V from Windows Update beginning July 8th.

The complete list of guest operating systems that will have technical support on Hyper-V include Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux. For full details on guest OS support, refer to www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V. We are continuing to evaluate other operating systems to add to this list and will provide more updates on them as available. We will look to add additional guest OS support based on customer demand and technical feasibility.

We have over 250 early adopter customers who are using Hyper-V. In Australia, we have over 20 customers active in early adoption programs with many of them in production. We also have a case study describing how the University of Canberra benefited from using Hyper-V and this can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002045

If you have any questions regarding Hyper-V, please contact me at your convenience.