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Microsoft Makes V-Day Date Official

As Virtualization Review Editor Keith Ward reported some time ago, Microsoft will indeed hold a big virtualization launch event on Sept. 8. What, exactly, will get launched is still up for speculation.

By the way, there's no good reason why Microsoft shouldn't be calling this event "V-Day." We won't even take credit for the name.

Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 2008


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