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Virtualisation touted for servers and desktops.

Virtualisation touted for servers and desktops.

Is Redmond's attack on the virtualisation market a re-run of its browser fight with Netscape 10 years ago?

Feature-complete release candidate of virtualisation software released.

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The Web's popular video format gets a copyright lockdown.

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