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Microsoft announced today the acquisition of MobiComp, a Portuguese company providing service and application building blocks for mobile operators. Of particular interest is the apparent flagship product, MobileKeeper Backup & Restore, which provides “comprehensive ‘over the air’ mobile backup and restore” for all that data in the customers’ cell phones that they really don’t want to lose. Mobicomp is privately held and no terms were announced.

Today, Microsoft announced that Hyper-V, the virtualization hypervisor for Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing. Customers are supposed to be able to grab the final version at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V, but that page doesn’t seem to have been updated just yet. Hyper-V will appear on Windows Update for Windows Server 2008 users starting July 8.

It’s been a long hard road to Hyper-V for Microsoft’s virtualization team what with schedule slips and feature cuts, but now they get to step into the ring with the heavyweights at VMware. Still, they have one big thing going for them: Hyper-V is effectively free so it may well draw the customers for whom it is “good enough.”