Hyper-V for free!
Microsoft today announced that Hyper-V will be released as a free download within 30 days. The free version does requires separate licenses for virtualized OS’es and lacks some features available in other versions. But for small customers or test/dev it’s perfect!
The table shows the differences between the editions:
More information can be found at Microsoft’s site:
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx