Windows 7

Microsoft announced at Worldwide Partner Conference about availability of beta versions of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can download it from here.

SP1 includes several new incremental enhancements, it also introduces two important new features for customers using the Windows Server virtualization stack:

Dynamic Memory

Dynamic Memory is a new feature within Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta’s Hyper-V.  It allows customers to achieve increased density when they’re consolidating physical servers into a virtual realm, providing them with predictable performance and linear scalability.  With Dynamic Memory, IT administrators are able to pool available memory on a physical host and then dynamically dole that memory out to virtual machines running on the host, based on current workload needs

RemoteFX

RemoteFX, a key feature of Remote Desktop Services (RDS) lets IT administrators deliver a rich graphics experience to end-users through virtualized desktops.  Using new protocol enhancements between Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, end users can now access virtual machines on a wide variety of target devices and still get a rich graphics experience with server-side graphics processing.

Photo – Rico Shen