Although on the Microsoft Windows virtualization team they have there heads down working on the next generation of virtual machine support to be built into Windows Longhorn server with a hypervisor architecture, there absolutely not sitting still on the Virtual Server 2005 R2 product which became free a couple of weeks back.
There will be a couple of beta releases of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - announcing the availabilty of beta 1.
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