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Story: Windows Goes Xen—by ProxyTotal Replies: 0
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Igor

Aug 26, 2007
9:18 AM EDT
Microsoft must have judged that relying on an outside source—and a General-Public-Licensed one, at that—for a piece of technology as central as a hypervisor would be too risky or uncomfortable, leading the Redmondians to opt instead to go it alone. translation: We did not have a clue what is and how the 'hypervisor ' works. A couple years ago we bought a company, which made virtualisation software.We integrated it into our products. Unfortunately, it did not work well enough. Then, we started to learn how the 'hypervisor' works by studying XEN source code. We signed with folks from Xen Source an agreement too. At the same time we paid close attention to VMware list of features. Now, we are ready to design our own virtualisation software. Any similarity to the process of how we created MS .NET is just pure coincidence.

----------------------------------- Reminder: MS signed an licensing agreement for Java with Sun. Few years later they (MS) developed .NET and dropped support for Java on MS platform.

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