Virtualization is really starting to take off. If you have noticed the recent push over the past few months in the desktop virtualization space, helping to allow consumers to choose a new laptop on the hardware criteria alone and not just the operating system. Also it is allowing consumers to make the transition to Apple hardware even easier. Or for those wishing to go open source, they can still use their favorite windows applications inside of a virtual machine.

Recent proof of the popularity of virtualization is this screen capture of digg. On a Saturday afternoon 2 of the top stories are directly related to virtualization.