Microsoft (MSFT) has been threatening to mothball the stock-market moonrocket called VMware (VMW) with the launch of its own "virtualization" product Hyper-V. The Redmond team rushed Hyper-V into beta and recently demo-ed it for Citi analyst Brent Thill in San Francisco.
Microsoft is so eager to disrupt the VMware growth-train, Thill says, that it will likely release Hyper-V before the targeted launch date (about 8 months away). continued here….
