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Although Microsoft did not confirm directly the launch, a representative of the firm’s public relations of the company sent an email referring briefly to a “product that marks a milestone” on Thursday. Then another representative hinted in an email that the reference had to do with Hyper-V.

While none said that was exactly the announcement, several blogs reported on Wednesday that Hyper-V would be launched on today Thursday. Other sources close to the company also said that the technology was in its final stages, but spoke in return for not revealing his identity.

Microsoft said it would launch its monitoring technology Hyper-V six months after the launch of Windows Server 2008, the latest version of the Windows operating system for servers. The company launched the software in late February.

Microsoft had originally trying to launch Hyper-V as part of the original launch of Windows Server 2008, but the technology was backward and reschedule to availability for 180 days, or about six months after the launch of Windows Server 2008.

Microsoft delayed the launch of Hyper-V, originally called codename “Viridian” because the company chose to withdraw some functions originally raised.

The virtualization is starting to become a key element in companies that are conducting the reduction of costs for data centers that run operating systems in virtual containers rather than physically in servers. Microsoft aims to reach the leader of virtualization VMware on the provision of these technologies for hardware systems that not only run Windows but also Linux or other operating systems.

The company said that promises to make virtualization a key part of its strategy of management systems and now also is spreading beyond the hardware towards virtualization applications and desktop computers.

The search giant, Google, is beginning to compete with Alexa, Compete and other services that base their existence in the delivery of statistics popularity of Internet sites.

However, it has always questioned the accuracy of the information Alexa and Compete, because their statistical calculations are based on information from third parties.

This time, Google joins the competition for describing and systematize information websites with their product Google Trends, which has added the ability to search among the statistics themselves.

Google Trends also becomes a provider absolutely reliable statistics, but it represents a new alternative to which users can rely in order to obtain benchmarks.

Google Trends base their results in a combination of source material, which includes sites and search traffic, as well as anonymous figures analysis from Google and other third party information.

The new Web browser from Mozilla, Firefox 3, reached a world record in downloads during the first 24 hours after its launch. However, only happen a couple of hours before it was detected the first critical vulnerability. The information was provided by Ryan Narain from the computer security company Kaspersky Labs, in his blog on ZDNet.

The company ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) which bought exclusive rights to information on software vulnerabilities has reported on the vulnerability.

According ZDI, the vulnerability in question provides the ability to intruders to run a malicious code on the victim’s computer, which in the worst case lets take control of the apparatus intervened.

The technical details of the security hole, as shown is also present in earlier versions of Firefox, were not published to avoid specific attacks.

The Internet firm Yahoo! announced the introduction of two new email domains, which will allow users to select new directions simpler and finished in ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

The current web-based service from yahoo.com has more than 260 million users around the world, so many directions should take complicated because the simplest are no longer available.

The e-mail accounts ymail.com or rocketmail.com will have the same tools that yahoo.com, as an unlimited storage, able to use instant messaging within the Inbox email, antispam and antivirus protection.

“People want e-mail addresses that reflect who they are, if you create an email address for the first time or updated their nickname to reflect at what stage of life are,” said vice president of Yahoo in a statement.

Mozilla entered into the Guinness records thanks to the six million free downloads that have been made of the last browser. It is not yet completed 24 hours.

The United States is at the moment and with more than one third of the downloads, the country where more users have made the free download of Firefox 3.0, which offers more than 15,000 improvements over its predecessor.

Spain is, with more than 220,000 downloads, the fourth country with more affluence in the “Download Day”, while Germany, with more than 400,000 brand new users of Firefox 3.0 is the second in the list, followed by Japan , with almost 310,000.

And all of this in less than 17 hours, in which the last delivery of the alternative Firefox browser has managed to overcome the expectations of the company, which was at the five million downloads.

Thus, it was not necessary to arrive within 24 hours of gratuity offered by Mozilla, a nonprofit that provides users with free Internet user technologies and open source, with its new release saturated lines to boot the premiere of his new schedule.

To reach the six million, has also worked from a single inhabitant of Chad or seven in Turkmenistan to Iran’s astonishing 180,000 or 100,000 of a country the size of Holland.

Mozilla Corporation far exceeds the number of downloads of Firefox 2 on the day of its launch, which were 1.6 billion, helped by the promotional campaign that has articulated with his “Download Day,” which also promoted social gatherings and celebrations to mark this awaited debut.

Since 2004, Firefox has faced the computer giant Bill Gates, Microsoft, and has been gaining more adherents to reach 175 million users, according to data provided by the company.

So, now owns 18 percent share of Internet users, although still far from the absolute leader, Explorer, which has 74 percent of the market, according to data from Net Applications.

Firefox is currently distributed in over 45 languages and is used in over 230 countries.

The new Firefox 3.0 is, for the technological expert of The Wall Street Journal, Walter S. Mossberg, “the best browser that exists right now, and that includes the most advanced versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari of Macintosh; both in speed, as in functions and security.”

Among the most notable developments of the newborn are the model of a single aesthetic, a new range of functions, address bar and intelligent, security, automatic recognition of the pages known to introduce viruses or spyware.