Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Sep 2007 14:17 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft is stepping up the pressure on virtualization leader VMware on the management tools front, releasing its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 product to manufacturing. The software maker also plans to support some third-party virtualization software, including VMware and open-source Xen, in the next version of the product.
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But I'm just positive that Microsoft isn't going to treat the VMs from other vendors as true first class citizens. Instead, it will just expose the lowest common denominator between VMs, and hope this will stifle competition by including speed hacks that are activated on VPC and left dormant on the others.
Not to mention how VMWare can expose hardware acceleration to the guest OS. Or how Xen can let guest OSs access some classes of hardware directly. VPC does neither, except for allowing access to USB...
I'm highly unimpressed by Microsoft's move, and I'm really wary that it's just smoke and mirrors to water down the differentiating qualities of their competitors. The one thing Microsoft won't ever do is let customers know there ARE stuff out there that's better implemented than Microsoft's offerings; and they surely won't expose such facts on a management tool such as this front-end.
'Nuff said.