<A target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/083111-microsoft-vmware-cloud-250291.html?source=nww_rss">Hyper-V was positioned to be a less expensive alternative to VMware.</A> Now Microsoft is saying similar clouds under the two systems have vastly different costs with Hyper-V coming in at about one-quarter of the price of VMware.