Apple gets the hype while VMware delivers since years!
In his article “Easy DOS It: Apple’s Plan to Provide the Best Darned Windows Experience Anywhere — Even Better Than Microsoft”, Robert X. Cringley explains how virtualization can provide a quick way to “reinstall” Windows under OS X in order to get rid of malware fast.
VMware already does this for years. Under Linux and Windows. I still use my two licenses of Win98 in virtual machines, and I love it. So why give all the hype to Apple? VMware is giving the technology away for free, you can use existing hardware and you are hardware-vendor-independent. VMware Workstation (which still costs money) even has a niffty “snapshot managent” which allows you to save different states of the virtual computer and choose which one you want to revert to.
Do I need to mention, that in VMware, you cannot only run Windows, but also other OSs for PC-hardware, like Linux, BSD, DOS. The question is: “When will OS X run under VMware?”
I don’t get money for this link: www.VMware.com :)
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