Microsoft recently announced that the service packs for Windows 7  and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to OEM partners, and will be released to customers on February 22nd. Here is a list of interesting updates within each service pack: Windows 7 – Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 is essentially a cumulative update [...]

Microsoft announced the release of the Windows 2008 SP1 public beta today at their Worldwide Partner Conference.    There are a couple of features being released in this service pack that are of particular interest, especially since they are geared toward enhancing the virtual desktop experience: Dynamic Memory lets Hyper-V administrators pool available memory on a physical host and dynamically [...]

Transparent page sharing and memory over commitment has always been a key differentiator between VMware and other industry leading hypervisors, including Microsoft’s Hyper-V.  Despite downplayng the significance of this feature, a number of sources have reported that Microsoft will finally introduce a “Dynamic Memory” feature for Hyper-V guests that may bring this feature set closer for [...]