Review: Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product†space, Jason Perlow is back  this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn’t slated to ship in final form until the latter half of this year  and will be missing a few previously-promised features by the time it does arrive  it just might be the “killer app†for Windows Server, and one which will have Microsoft’s competitors scrambling to keep up, Perlow claims.