5 excellent uses of Windows 8 Hyper-V

Buried under all of the clamor and kvetching about Windows 8's most obvious features—Metro! Metro apps!—is a new addition that hasn't made a lot of headlines: Windows 8's new Hyper-V-powered virtualization functionality. Oddly, most people don't seem to know Hyper-V even exists in Windows 8, let alone what it's good for. But it's one of the hidden pearls inside the Windows 8 oyster. The exact technical name for Hyper-V in Windows 8 is Client Hyper-V. Microsoft picked this name to d...