Quoting from Network World:
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Microsoft will bring SoftGrid’s capabilities under its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which is a plan to create a management platform for Windows.The company has a three-tiered virtualization plan that covers servers, applications and system services. While the server strategy is nearly in full-flight, Microsoft has said nothing about application virtualization until last month and says it won’t dive into system service virtualization, which is designed to help hosted platforms, until after 2007.
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