The downloadable update for current Fusion 3 customers, Fusion 3.1, boasts improved 3D graphics, a new USB "easy connect" and 18 other new features. – VMware on May 26 announced that it has upgraded its popular Fusion
virtualization package, which enables Mac users to run the Windows
Vista or Windows 7 operating systems and their applications in a
virtual machine on the desktop.
The downloadable update for current Fusion 3 customers, Fus…
Running Windows on the Apple Mac platform using virtualization products is bringing us closer to the day when Microsoft workloads will run as just another application on Mac systems. eWEEK Labs has recently tested three of the virtualization platforms that enable Windows applications to run on Macs #151VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop for Mac and Sun VirtualBox. The VMware and Parallels products #151both of which cost about $80 #151run neck-in-neck in terms of support for Boot Camp partitions and Windows 7 virtual machines. Sun’s VirtualBox offering wins on price #151it’s free. Check out the highlights of each of these Wappple bridges in the following slideshow. (Links to full reviews of the products are on the last slide.)
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The tight Windows-on-Mac market just got tighter with the release of Parallels Desktop 5. Parallels Desktop can now make Windows virtual machines appear as the only system in Full Screen mode or almost invisible and as just another Mac application in the new Crystal mode. Parallels also now ships with useful tools for managing virtual machine creation.
– The tight competition among products designed to push Windows onto the Mac got a little tighter with the release of Parallels Desktop 5.
Running neck-in-neck with rivals VMware Fusion 3 and Sun VirtualBox 3, Parallels Desktop can now make Windows virtual machines appear as the only system in Full…
