Microsoft gets a finalist nod for its Virtual Server 2005 offering, which lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine, based on a test conducted by Lab Alliance member Tom Henderson. Microsoft's foray into server consolidation, via technology it picked up with a 2003 purchase of Connectix, is proving worthwhile, Henderson said. Along with the Virtual Server Migration Kit, Virtual Server 2005 "provides a way to gracefully move and consolidate older Windows NT and 2000 Server applications onto newer (and ostensibly higher-capacity) hardware."