Tom's IT Pro: "The principle of Hyper-V is to allow multiple guest operating systems to run concurrently on a Windows 8 host. The benefit is to save on hardware costs.
Windows 8 contains Hyper-V 3.0 support. The technology is almost identical to the hypervisor built into Windows Server 2008 R2."
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.