When released sometime in the next 30 days, Hyper-V Server 2008 will be free for the download and can be used to consolidate both Windows and Linux workloads onto a single physical server. Application Virtualization 4.5 will be part of Microsoft’s Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2, due sometime in the next few weeks. Microsoft says server OEMs report nearly 100% of Windows Server 2008 orders include Hyper-V. Oh, yes, and Amazon.com is testing Hyper-V read more