Hyper-V

Article summary

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.

Key claims

1. release date: 2008-06-26 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2012 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 2008-10-01 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the release date is "2008-06-26". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the release date is "2012". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the release date is "2008-10-01". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
6. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374122056