Microsoft has given me the OK to announce that Hyper-V officially releases today! It'll take a while for Microsoft to get the bits up on the web site, but for now you can grab all the information you need to prepare at this web site.

Here's what you can expect to be new and improved in RTM over RC1:

• Improvements in performance.
• Improvements in networking features.
• Improved guest support for Windows XP SP2, Vista x64, and SMP installations of many OSs.

The above improvements are worded softly for now, but what should strike you as an interesting proof of concept is that IIS servers for the MSDN and TechNet sites have both been running off of Hyper-V for an extended period of time. So, if you've been using MSDN and TechNet for the past few weeks, then you're interacting with Hyper-V hosted workloads.

More information on the downloads as I get it...