PUBLIC MARKS with tags vmware & microsoft

Microsoft today released Virtual PC 2007 to beta testers via the Connect website and I must say I am quite underwhelmed. We were expecting some form of multiple snapshots and a better management console, but neither are to be seen in this release.

Microsoft is expected to release Virtual Server 2005 for free on next Monday. The virtualization war against VMware is getting hotter!

Where is Microsoft while VMware is delivering virtualization innovations one after another, driving the whole IT market quite all alone? Considering the Virtual PC / Virtual Server development cycle from 2002, when the Redmond giant acquired the VMware competitor called Connectix, customers saw few innovations (some readers will remember that Connectix was already working on a server product when Microsoft acquired them), no enterprise management tools, no serious physical to virtual (P2V) migration tools.