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There's nothing like buying your way into an industry to get a foot through the door.

Intel Capital just made a US$ 218.5 million buy-in on virtualization company VMware, pocketing 9.5 million Class A shares (that's US$ 23 per share) in the process.

Word on the street is virtual infrastructure purveyor VMware is preparing a reduced-footprint version of its existing ESX hypervisor, dubbed ESX Lite. The slimmed-down solution is set up to run directly within a server's firmware -- a notion that, while talked about, is virtually unheard-of in practice.

Time can be a severe dictator. To keep on-schedule for a promised virtualization technology release, Microsoft announced Thursday that it plans to pull features out of its "Viridian" hypervisor to keep on schedule.

This news comes after a previous delay in which the launch date for the beta, scheduled for the first half of 2007, was moved to the second half.