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Windows 7 (or Vienna) to ship Hypervisor built in by 2009



Interview on Windows 7 release:

Q: What features will be included in Windows Vienna?

A: Microsoft hasn't publicly committed to any features for Vienna and the company is currently still deciding what this next Windows release will look like. We do know a few things about Vienna, however: It will include a new version of Windows Explorer that is being built by the same team that designed the Ribbon user interface in Office 2007. It will likely include some form of the "Hypervisor" (Windows Virtualization) technologies that will ship shortly after Windows Server "Longhorn". It will also likely include the WinFS (Windows Future Storage) technologies, though they won't be packaged or branded as WinFS.


So meaning that the desktop/client version will also have a hypervisor built in?

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