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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - Beta 2

Microsoft Virtual ServerSupercalifragilistic...oh, hi! Welcome to our blog today. What a mouthful, did you read the title of this post? That is incredible. Anyway, Virtual Server 2005 (VS2005 for short) has been released by Microsoft for download. This is the latest in Microsoft's Virtual Server line (the fall collection), and the download requires that you register for the beta program to obtain it from Microsoft. It comes in either a 32-bit or 64-bit edition, and has new support for AMD-V, IVT (Intel), a white paper on host clustering, and integration with Active Directory. Microsoft has typically had pretty good virtual computing clients, and 2005 is the best so far.

Filed under: Developer, OS Updates, News, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware

Microsoft Virtual Server now free

Microsoft has taken the wraps off their new pricing scheme for Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition, and the new price is a surprise coming out of Redmond: Free! The Standard Edition of the same product has been terminated, and moving forward there will only be the Enterprise Edition.

This move is being done due to pressure from Novell and Red Hat flavors of Linux which are both shipping with virtualization built in to the operating system. The Longhorn server class operating systems will ship with Windows hypervisor technology, which is a similar form of virtualization that will be based on the same virtual hard disk file format that Virtual Server uses, giving users an upgrade path.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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