Microsoft on Monday said it would remove the price tag from its Virtual Server and begin offering the virtualization technology as a free download to Windows users. Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise ...

Virtual Server 2005 R2, or "Release 2" in Microsoft's nomenclature, sports improved performance, support for failover in case of hardware failure, clustering of virtual machines on a single host or ...

Microsoft’s licensing policies make my job easier. I can count on writing a few newsletters each year (and one or two Wired Windows columns) on the annual changes to the various licensing schemes ...

Editor’s Note: On page 5, this story should have said that the licensing implications aren’t clear about the fact that SWsoft virtualized environments don’t require a separate instance of the OS. Two ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will give away its Virtual Server R2 for free, a move seen as reflecting the furiously competitive virtualization software market. This is Microsoft’s second ...