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Software
VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard And Win7 With 64-Bit Power
12:40AM Matt Buchanan | VMWare’s Fusion 3—with full support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7—is out today. Besides being natively 64-bit in Snow Leopard, it lets you migrate a PC to your virtual machine, launches Windows apps like native apps and more. More »
QOTD
4:09PM Nick Broughall | I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging machine. But how to do it? More »
QOTD: Boot Camp, Parallels Or Fusion?
4:09PM Nick Broughall | I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging machine. But how to do it? More »
Business
Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw A Chair
10:00AM Jason Chen | Remember the incident back in 2004 where Steve Ballmer threw a chair across the room when he heard an employee was leaving Microsoft to go to Google? That guy, Mark Lucovsky, is leaving Google for VMWare. More »
Cameras
Nikon Using Naughty Bits to Sell Cameras: There Has to Be a Better Way…Right?
8:00AM Jack Loftus | Recently, Nikon fired off this French ad comparing the Coolpix2100 camera to the larger and more supple Coolpix3100. Meanwhile, a female journalist friend of mine had, well, an “experience” at a VMWare user’s group meeting. More »
Software
VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster?
10:00AM Matt Buchanan | Ironically, it’s one of the biggest decisions you make when you get a Mac: How should I run Windows on it? Parallels or Fusion? An exhaustive battery of benchmarks by MacTech reveals a clear winner. More »
Software
VMWare For Mobile Devices Lets You Run Windows and Android Simultaneously
8:33PM John Herrman | Ok, this is even cooler than we expected: a Nokia N800, loaded with VMWare’s MVP hypervisor, is seen here running Windows CE and Android, at the same time. This is a big deal! More »
Software
VMware Pushing Virtual Machines for Smartphones, Will Support Parallel OSes
9:56PM John Herrman | VMware, which consumers know mostly for their Fusion desktop virtualisation software, is moving into the mobile space, albeit surreptitiously. The company has announced VMware MVP, a thin layer of software that will interface between handsets’ hardware and operating system, allowing for a standardised development platform across any handsets that include it. What does this mean for regular consumers? For now, not much. If the tech finds enough support for hardware vendors, though, the consequences could be major. More »
Software
VMware Fusion 2.0 for Macs, Virtualisation With 100 New Features
7:40AM Mark Wilson | To those who’d rather run two OSes at once than dual boot with Boot Camp, VMware has released the 2.0 version of Fusion. It includes over 100 new features, including the option to load Windows programs without a Windows desktop, a Time Machinesque backup utility, and completely mirrored file sharing independent of OS. There’s also support for 32-bit and 64-bit OSes, 4-core systems, Bluetooth, DirectX 9.0c and up to 10 displays. Yeah, we pretty much just pasted specs there. But boy, were we excited doing it. [VMware via TGDaily] More »
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VMWare Fusion Review by Mossberg
10:14AM Seamus Byrne | Walt Mossberg appears to be scooping again. This time, it’s a review of VMWare’s Fusion (Available this Monday, August 6th). The software, like Parallels, allows PC programs to run from within OS X. Mossberg compares them, simply: Parallels has more features than Fusion…But I found Fusion puts less strain on the computer overall. Jacqui at Ars notes that Parallels isn’t taking this competitor lying down. They just released a new beta that supports Mac Expose window swooshing of Windows programs. [VMWareAllThingsD] More »
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