One other item of interest about this particular study was that the Microsoft PR team used it to conduct a never-before experiment with outreach on Twitter. The PR team told reporters invited to the conference that they could post advance questions (or even follow-ups) on Twitter with the hashtag . So Microsoft Subnet did so, asking a question unrelated to the topic at hand, (but far more interesting, we think). We asked: "when will SCVMM 2008 R2 be avail?" (System Center Virtual Machine Manager is one of the technologies under Bob Kelly's marketing wing. The R2 beta RC was released to .) But alas, our lonely question was the only one posted and has, so far, elicited no reply.

Beyond that, we also note that the idea of "innovation" is going to be the marketing buzzword that Microsoft will be spoon-feeding you over the next few weeks in conjunction with Hyper-V and the Systems Center family. In addition to this commissioned study, we see that Microsoft has provided a guest blog today on its Virtualization Team Blog from a Microsoft MVP called : . The guest blogger not only uses the term "innovation" but also references this very study, conducted by .