Microsoft has spent an important steps in virtualization since it has announced the Release Candidate version of its a long waited Hyper-V. Already present in Windows 2008 Server Beta, this update (RC 0) Install on 2008 can see, a little more prepared for the final version that is evolving over time. Thus, Microsoft intends to take a sector already acquired by VMWare. Microsoft hopes to convince businesses to choose their virtualization solution, by partnering with large companies like Dell, AMD, Siemens, Intel, IBM… to improve the stability of its programs in all types of enviornments.

Microsoft has just announced a list of operating systems described as compatible and tested on Hyper-V which now includes Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.

You can find more information about Hyper-V at this address: Here
You can download the Release Candidate Hyper-V, only valid for 64-bit systems: Here! …)