Mary Jo Foley at Microsoft Watch writes:

…They had decided to christen the first service pack (SP) update for Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 product as an R2 release…

Virtual Server, which is based on technology Microsoft acquired from Connectix Corp. in 2003, allows customers to run multiple operating systems, including Linux and Unix, concurrently on a single x86 hardware server.

Microsoft officials have talked up plans for Virtual Server 2005 SP1 for months. The primary enhancements were the addition of x64-based system support and support for Linux as a guest operating system. Microsoft released a first SP1 beta in April.”

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