Megh Neupane

Microsoft is offering a free eBook covering its prominent virtualization technologies that include -

• Server Virtualization (Hyper-V, Server 2008 Virtualization, Virtual Machine Manager 2008)
• Application Virtualization (App-V)
• Desktop Virtualization (Enterprise Desktop Virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
• Presentation Virtualization (Terminal Services)
• Profile Virtualization (Roaming Profiles, Folder Redirection, Offline Files)

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Today, Microsoft contributed Linux drivers to Linux community that will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. Although not an entirely new phenomena, Microsoft is rarely seen to embrace GNU General Public License (v2) and is very vocal about the licensing procedure although this is the first time ever of any direct code contribution (20000 lines) to GPL v2.

As a featured story inside Microsoft’s press release, Tom Hanrahan, director of Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center, is seen through the Q&A session of this release, here’s what he has to say about the announcement –

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