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Not to worry, because Paul Thurrott is covering the major stories in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/\">Windows IT Pro magazine network<\/a> WinInfo Daily Update and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jhoward\/\">John Howard&#8217;s blog<\/a> has much more information.<\/p>\n<p>One of the IT Forum news stories concerns Virtual Server 2005 R2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/service-packs-feature-packs-and.htm\">formerly SP1<\/a>).  A few weeks back I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/microsoft-virtualisation-futures.htm\">Microsoft&#8217;s virtualisation roadmap<\/a> and several news sources are reporting that in his keynote speech, Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/exec\/bobmuglia\/\">Bob Muglia<\/a> announced that Virtual Server 2005 R2 has been released to manufacturing. Furthermore, the new pricing model is just $99 for Standard Edition and $199 for Enterprise Edition &#8211; it seems that Microsoft really is serious about competing with VMware. At that price for Virtual Server, and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/introducing-vmware-player.htm\">VMware Player<\/a> attacking the low end market (although I&#8217;ve heard mixed reports about how good it really is at handling Microsoft VMs), it&#8217;s hard to see where Virtual PC fits in all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Microsoft&#8217;s IT infrastructure conference for EMEA &#8211; the IT Forum. Last year I missed it because my wife was heavily pregnant (and my son was born that week). This year, of course, it was his first birthday, so I&#8217;m missing it again. Not to worry, because Paul Thurrott is covering the major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/virtual-server-2005-r2-has-gone-rtm.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual Server 2005 R2 has gone RTM &#8211; and it&#8217;s not expensive either<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hyper-v"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Virtual Server 2005 R2 has gone RTM - and it&#039;s not expensive either - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/virtual-server-2005-r2-has-gone-rtm.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virtual Server 2005 R2 has gone RTM - and it&#039;s not expensive either - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week is Microsoft&#8217;s IT infrastructure conference for EMEA &#8211; the IT Forum. 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