Heading into 2013 the hot topic around the IT water cooler seems firmly focused on the “Virtualization War” being waged between Microsoft and VMware. There are arguments to be made on both sides of the debate and who will come out on top is anyone’s guess at this point. Microsoft has a history of coming to market late with a product, only to devour the entire market with a low price point. While Microsoft looks to finish buying out the current Virtualization Market, VMware has seemingly decided to ignore Virtualization as an “end game” and continues to push past it towards full cloud adoption to compete as a service to rival Microsoft Azure.