Comments on: Hyper-V deployments suddenly drop to zero http://www.vcritical.com/2009/06/hyper-v-deployments-suddenly-drop-to-zero/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:54:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Microsoft Virtualization still claiming one million Hyper-V downloads | VCritical http://www.vcritical.com/2009/06/hyper-v-deployments-suddenly-drop-to-zero/#comment-7051 Microsoft Virtualization still claiming one million Hyper-V downloads | VCritical Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:29:31 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1214#comment-7051 [...] In case you are not familiar with this scam, please refer to the Million Hypervisor March and Hyper-V Deployments Suddenly Drop to Zero. [...] [...] In case you are not familiar with this scam, please refer to the Million Hypervisor March and Hyper-V Deployments Suddenly Drop to Zero. [...]

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/06/hyper-v-deployments-suddenly-drop-to-zero/#comment-6845 Eric Gray Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:53:56 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1214#comment-6845 Ben, I appreciate your comment and I also get the impression that it wasn't your idea to use the Hyper-v hotfix download count as an adoption metric. Having open discussion and debate is one of the great elements of blogging. Opposing views are quite welcome here -- too bad the same cannot be said about the Microsoft Virtualization blog. Eric Ben,

I appreciate your comment and I also get the impression that it wasn’t your idea to use the Hyper-v hotfix download count as an adoption metric.

Having open discussion and debate is one of the great elements of blogging. Opposing views are quite welcome here — too bad the same cannot be said about the Microsoft Virtualization blog.

Eric

]]> By: Ben Armstrong http://www.vcritical.com/2009/06/hyper-v-deployments-suddenly-drop-to-zero/#comment-6841 Ben Armstrong Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:20:56 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1214#comment-6841 This is really one of the big challenges of being part of Windows / Microsoft - tracking actual usage information. I remember when Microsoft first acquired Connectix and released Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. The decision was made that, because one of the primary markets for desktop virtualization is development and test, that Virtual PC should be included in MSDN. At first we thought this was a great idea - but the downside was that we immediately lost any way to have insight into how many people were actually using Virtual PC for development and test. Cheers, Ben This is really one of the big challenges of being part of Windows / Microsoft – tracking actual usage information.

I remember when Microsoft first acquired Connectix and released Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. The decision was made that, because one of the primary markets for desktop virtualization is development and test, that Virtual PC should be included in MSDN. At first we thought this was a great idea – but the downside was that we immediately lost any way to have insight into how many people were actually using Virtual PC for development and test.

Cheers,
Ben

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