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mackid | 7 months ago

Bill/MS acquired Connectix’s virtualization technology [1] in 2003. VirtualPC and Virtual Server went on to become Hyper-V and power Azure to this day. VPC was released in 1997 and VMW founded in 1998.

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/source/2003/02/19/microsoft-acqui...

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p_ing|7 months ago

VPC/VS were replaced by Hyper-V. They're two very different technologies with no crossover (Type-2 replaced by Type-1, to start with).