Every category where a model named Hyper-V for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Server virtualization platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	15 of 78	25%	12	criticized challenger
Virtual desktops	IT operations and endpoint	0%	68 of 81	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Hyper-V yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Hyper-V across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Good if your company is already deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, though Windows licensing can make it less budget-friendly.” GPT-5.4 mini · Server virtualization · budget prompt · alternative

“Best Windows-centered option: Hyper-V - native with Windows Server, good if you already hold Microsoft licences” Muse Glimmer 30B · Server virtualization · scale prompt · alternative

“Hyper-V holds the largest mind share of 19.3%... ideal for Microsoft-centric environments.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Server virtualization · comparative prompt · alternative

“Hyper-V is the cheapest correct answer, costs whatever Windows Server already costs you” Muse Glimmer 30B · Server virtualization · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“built on a hypervisor (like VMware or Hyper-V) that is not frequently patched, your entire environment is at risk” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · soft negative

“A 2024 Hyper-V vulnerability (CVE-2024-49117) allowed malicious code from a guest VM to escape to the host” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“you should be cautious if it's tied to an unsupported Windows Server version or an old host build” GPT-5.4 mini · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“TechRadar notes limited Linux support and fewer capabilities than some alternatives.” Perplexity Sonar · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hyper-V, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hyper-V was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proxmox VE26 of 3114Not among the top eight

VMware vSphere20 of 313Not among the top eight

Nutanix AHV12 of 311Not among the top eight

XCP-ng9 of 310Not among the top eight

KVM5 of 311Not among the top eight

VirtualBox4 of 310Not among the top eight

Scale Computing3 of 311Not among the top eight

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization3 of 310Not among the top eight

Xen3 of 310Not among the top eight

vSphere2 of 311Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Hyper-V. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 24 of the 31 answers that named Hyper-V and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.microsoft.com10

proxmox.com9

guideflow.com8

nutanix.com6

techdogs.com6

techtarget.com6

v2cloud.com6

worldmetrics.org6

ciopages.com5

startupstash.com5

No domain is on file for Hyper-V, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/overview9

guideflow.com/blog/server-virtualization-software8

v2cloud.com/blog/top-5-virtualization-platforms6

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/virtualization-platform5

startupstash.com/server-virtualization-tools5

techdogs.com/td-articles/product-mine/best-server-virtualization-software4

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/top-7-virtualisation-software-for-enterprises/128593

cloudchipr.com/blog/vmware-alternatives3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Hyper-V stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 12,100 a month (“hyper-v”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6,997 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 15 of 78 in server virtualization

Segment leader

42%

Proxmox VE

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 31 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Hyper-V by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Hyper-V is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Hyper-V, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.