The recent announcement that Hyper-V supports CentOS Linux guest virtual machines makes Microsoft's offering even more attractive to organizations of all sizes. It may sound counterintuitive, but the ...

Dueling announcements from the Open Source Business Conference earlier this week involved Red Hat in virtualization space, with one announcement setting up Red Hat’s defense. The other demonstrating ...

Microsoft has added support for another Linux server distribution with its Hyper-V virtualization software, its latest move to compete better with virtualization market leader VMware. Customers can ...

Among the many announcements coming out of the Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Atlanta this week, here's yet another: The company has added support for CentOS to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

Microsoft announced at Tech-Ed that it has added support for a highly popular Linux distribution to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The distribution being supported is CentOS, which is based on the ...