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VMWorld: Maritz on the future of the operating system [video]

By | August 31, 2010, 1:51pm PDT

At the VMworld conference in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz anticipates the changing role of the operating system. Maritz says that, increasingly, hardware coordination and software abstract services are moving to virtual layers and that the traditional OS is becoming just one component of the virtual framework.

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