Comments on: Humble… but dishonest

By: Microsoft COO Kevin Turner makes up Hyper-V market share numbers, gets caught | VCritical

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:59:03 +0000

[...] the “million Hyper-V downloads” and this new fabricated market share statement coming from the highest levels of Microsoft, [...]

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:25:21 +0000

Good point, Rick. Could “Bing” be next?

By: Rick Schlander

Rick Schlander — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:19:52 +0000

Hummm…this sounds very familiar. Remember how they “counted” the number of people that visit msn when that was the “default” homepage for all IE setups?

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:09:26 +0000

Erik, you may have intentionally downloaded Hyper-V to evaluate it, but keep in mind that just turning on Windows Update will automatically download it as well. Even in virtual instances of Windows 2008. That means a single physical machine could be counted a dozen or more times — even if it was actually running VMware ESX.

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:45:14 +0000

I think the majority of the Hyper-V downloads is for evaluation purposes only.
I downloaded it myself to see what the fuss was about but this can and may not be considered as a Hyper-V deployment. I removed as quick as I could.