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Next Microsoft OS: Touch and operate

Microsoft showed off new Windows features based on software "multi-touch" that will be part of Windows 7 slated to be out in late 2009

Eric Auchard

It was evident from VMWorld 2007 that virtualization has gone mainstream in enterprise computing. Virtualization deals with the abstraction of hardware and software resources in a computing environment. The nine-year old company, Palo Alto-based VMware, attracted nearly 11,000 people and scores of partners at VMWorld 2007 in September, a month after it went public. VMware's IPO was a spectacular success in stock market terms. And in her keynote, Diane Greene, President and CEO, VMware called it as, "The IPO of the virtualization industry rather than VMware alone," and recanted its potential to wrought a revolution in computing architecture.

At the event, VMware announced a new hypervisor called ESX Server 3i that comes integrated with server hardware. Server vendors who announced pre-installed hypervisor from VMware include Dell, IBM, HO, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and NEC. The new hypervisor occupies a 32 MB footprint and is OS independent. It can therefore be easily embedded into a hardware that makes the hardware come ready with manageability in a distributed environment.

"ESX Server 3i will have a significant impact on the IT industry," said Peter Amstutz, Chief, Network Design, Defense Contract Management Agency. "IT professionals will stop thinking about virtualization as an operating system or software, but really as a component of the hardware itself."
Hardware vendors are expected to begin shipping ESX Server 3i within their products by the end of 2007 and over the course of 2008.
Other announcements centered around the new product introductions in the virtualization infrastructure like virtual desktop, automation of disaster recovery, data centers, and virtual appliances.

In a step that may be seen to be extending a friendly hand to potential competitors, VMware announced the development of a standard called OVF (Open Virtualization Format) along with Microsoft, which is working on a virtualization product code-named Viridian and Xensource, the open source virtualization technology. The standard is aimed at easing the packaging and distribution of virtual machines. But Greene avers that VMware is ahead of the game than Microsoft citing that the latter's product doesn't support the live migration of virtual machines while they are running purportedly a very powerful feature in virtualization.

The technical benefits of virtualization leads to a larger benefit in the form of savings in power needed to run servers and the cooling of data centers. The gains here are substantial. AMD's Delivering a keynote address, chairman Hector Ruiz gave the example of a 79 percent reduction in power consumption when they consolidated 113 servers using virtualization at their Austin data center.

Microsoft Corp said Monday it will cut the price of its main Xbox 360 video game console model by about 13 percent in the United States, hoping to boost sales ahead of the crucial holiday season.
The move reduces the price of the Xbox 360 Premium model by $50, to $350, and follows a move last month by rival Sony Corp to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 machine by 17 percent, to $500.

Faced with unexpectedly strong competition from Nintendo Co Ltd's cheaper Wii console, Microsoft is aiming at expanding the appeal of the Xbox 360 to an audience outside its core fan base of young men.

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