Like I mentioned earlier, the mere fact that Microsoft launches something as substantial as an hypervisor combined with the fact that this is their first real entry into the (server) virtualization market. Alesandro agrees and has written an article on the subject reflecting on how this (in his mind) impacts the other vendors and how they choose to respond (if they did). The vendors Alessandro covers are:

• Citrix
• Virtual Iron
• Sun
• Parallels
• VMware
• Red Hat

Quest (the company I work for) is missing from this list. I can however fill you on on the position of Quest on Hyper-V (the Provision Networks division that is): as you know we have supported Hyper-V as a virtualization platform in our Virtual Access Suite since day one (actually before day one). The hypervisor agnostic approach is a strategic decision at the Provision Networks division. We think that the customer should select the best hypervisor to suit their needs and select the best VDI product to use with that hypervisor without having a hypervisor being imposed upon them because of the choice for a certain VDI product.

Hyper-V will probably be used by a lot of customers. I personally expect Hyper-V to get a lot of traction in SMB environments, only to move on up as time progresses (time being the key factor here). Anyway, I will stop rambling here. My point was to point out Alessandro's article so here it is.