&gt; Supporting container workloads doesn&#x27;t need to come at the expense of &quot;traditional&quot; virtualization...<p>Absolutely agree with you, I think machine and container virtualization should co-exist in a sophisticated ecosystem and it isn&#x27;t an either-or. Just as server- and desktop-hosted virtualization should co-exist on another axis of the ecosystem.<p>I lack insight into why VMWare effectively gave up on holding down the desktop end of the spectrum, which essentially tells customers that the capability to scale from desktops to servers is no longer as important to its mission or business model. Perhaps native desktop OS support for virtualization is shaping up much faster and more robustly than we realize, VMWare execs see the writing on the wall and decided to exit the space on a high note instead of fighting future ever-declining revenues in that space, and they will count upon lower-margin solutions based upon native desktop OS virtualization features to address the desktop-to-server scaling issue.