By ray | November 15, 2007
VMware as released VMware Fusion 1.1 VM software for the Mac. The software now fully supports Leopard. Additional new OS support includes 32 and 64-bit Vista along with 64-bit Windows XP. There’s over two dozen improvements and fixes listed in the release notes.
VMware also released a beta version of their VMware Importer. This can be [...]
Posted in Mac Apps | Tagged vmware_fusion |
By ray | October 22, 2007
[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.]
It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used [...]
Posted in OS X 10.5 Leopard | Also tagged aperture, apple, firefox, growl, leopard, macmozy, parallels_for_mac, pathfinder, quicksilver, superduper, transmit, yojimbo |
Yesterday I wrote about my 10 Most Used Mac Apps according to Wakoopa. I was a little surprised by some of the apps that showed up on the list and a few apps I really like didn’t show up in the top 10.
So these are the apps I wished were on, or expected to show [...]
By ray | September 2, 2007
I upgraded to the production version about two weeks ago. I installed a late beta of VMWare Fusion on my MacBook a short time before the production release. It’s set up to run the Boot Camp partition in a VM. I still haven’t found a need to run Windows on OS X but the VMWare [...]
Posted in Mac Apps | Tagged vmware_fusion |
Upgrades - Patches - Please Stop the Madness
It seems like all I did this past week was patch and upgrade. I already mentioned the iWeb ‘08 update.
Microsoft released 9 security updates so it took awhile to patch my VMs.
Apple also updated Boot Camp to version 1.4 and I got around to updating it this week.
VMWare [...]
http://news.com.com/Mystery+surrounds+Microsofts+virtualization+flip-flop/2100-1016_3-6192220.html
CNet News has a good analysis of Microsoft’s last minute decision not to expand their license to allow running the lower priced versions of Vista. Microsoft has claimed this is for security reasons since virtualization introduces security risk. Those security risks exist for all Vista versions and in fact for any OS. My favorite part [...]
