Hyper-V

Microsoft turned the buzz about it from negative to positive during the past weeks with its standby Big New Product Show &ndash debuting an operating system everyone wanted to see because they never had any choice but to buy it. Now, of course, they do. If they remember.

A lot of technologies attract interest or pilot projects from big companies. The only techs that stick around are those that make companies willing to hire for the skills to make them work.

Microsoft said its application virtualization software due later this year will let applications run on its Azure cloud as well as in the data center.

Cloud.com built support for Hyper-V into open-source cloud software in response to rebellion from VMware users no one else sees.