Hyper-V: It's here
As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization.We looked at a late beta of Hyper-V back in February of this year and at the time, we were impressed with the system's performance and ease of use.