# Microsoft — Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

- Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-14T19:00:00+00:00
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-server-virtualization-platforms/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/22464-microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-server
- Subject: Azure AI

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms. The company attributes this recognition to its approach of providing operational consistency through Azure and Azure Arc, and infrastructure consistency through Hyper-V, which helps organizations manage distributed environments.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-server-virtualization-platforms/:

> We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms.

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