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How does Microsoft restrict virtualization progress?

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by naughtymonkey

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This explanation of how Microsoft practices hinder and restrict progress int eh adoption of virtualization published by VMWare in February 2007. A little old, but has a few addendum since publishing and is still a good read.

http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_licensing_wp.html

Other vendors have open formats and proven track records that beat anything Microsoft could do.

Do you think these practices will eventually cause Microsoft to abandon their VM Software due to poor adoption or will they eventually attempt to buy out VMWare?

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by kmdennis

Just because Industry has been so deeply enshrined into Microsofts products, it will be difficult to progress until there is some serious rebellion. Unless one of these vendors decide to to create a complete and properly configured virtualized environment solution, it will continue and probably get worse. We need a vendor who can Install and configure a Web server, Email Server, MySQL Server, File Server and possibly some collaboration or CRM software and sell that complete package, Microsoft will still have the monopoly. And why haven't anyone sued Microsoft for this kind of practice?

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