Category Archives: Virtualization

As Seen On Twitter….

“get to go play with Sharepoint for a bit. Have to launch Parallels so I can get into the site. That counts as strikes 1 through 94. – dnorman

First Look at VMWare Fusion Beta for OS X

VMWare has finally released the promised version of their virtualization product for OS X: http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/ I got the email notice about its availability just before the holidays, but I only got around to playing with it this week. So far it seems to be a bit behind Parallels Desktop in  Read more »

My Mac Pro has arrived… almost!

I received word last week that my new Mac Pro has arrived, but our IT group is a bit backed up. It will probably be next week before they finish staging the system. They’ve at least unpacked the beast — I recently discovered a monstrous, empty Mac Pro box abandoned  Read more »

Microsoft VirtualPC is Now Free

I came across an amazing fact today. In a blog entry about how to do cross-browser testing on Windows with multiple versions of Internet Explorer, I found a note that Virtual PC for Windows is now free. Sounds like a good deal to me. I’ve been using VPC for IE  Read more »