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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.