Microsoft hopes Office

Microsoft hopes Office 

that will on January 22nd change, it on January 22nd announced a acquisitions, upgrade software and updated pricing, it hopes these measures can help it become virtualization market an unavoidable manufacturer.

No doubt, virtualization technology is a strange technology. But it will be through the lower energy costs and hardware costs and change the traditional enterprise computing mode. VMware company with virtualization pioneer many vendors are led the development of virtualization Microsoft Office 2010 makes work easier.

technology. According to IDC analyst John Humphreys estimates, last year's virtualization market scale up to $1.3 billion.

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Microsoft also wanted to partake. It will try to take in this chip market. Virtualization technology can manage computing resources, this also is the operating system Microsoft products the core task. But analysts say of Microsoft's virtualization technology is mainly a postmortem offset technology, hard to meet the needs of users.

Then for VMware left develop new business. IDC Humphreys estimate, the company VMware company in virtualization market share in between about 85% to 90%. Since the company last August 14 in listed its shares have since, have risen by nearly 200%.

Microsoft this fiscal year income target is $60 billion, of which the revenue from virtualization technology make up only a small proportion. But IDC estimates this part business company when 2011 will grow 2 times or so. In addition, customers also proposed to virtualization more and more high requirements. This gives VMware companies and developed on the basis of Windows and Linux system of other manufacturers virtualization left the opportunity of the development. Jonathan Illuminata market research company Eunice said: "if you don't toward customer guide direction, you will meet many problems. That also is confusion happen source."