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Parallels Serves Up Desktop Beta 2 August 28, 2007 
Parallels has launched the latest beta for its Parallels Desktop for Mac software, an application that allows Intel-based Mac users to run a Windows operating system simultaneously on their Apple computers. Beta 2 of the Parallels Desktop 3.0 update focuses on features that allow Mac owners to automatically share movies, pictures, music, documents and even desktops.
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VMware Unleashes Fusion for Windows on Mac August 03, 2007 
Software maker VMware announced its Mac virtualization product, Fusion, will be available on Aug. 6, while competitor SWsoft just released a new Parallels beta update that offers similar features. Until now, Fusion was in extensive beta testing -- to the tune of 250,000 users, according to the company.
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Parallels Gears Up for Games, Graphics June 08, 2007 
Software maker Parallels has released version 3.0, a major upgrade of its Windows virtualization software for Macs. The package now allows users to attach applications -- running in either the Mac or Windows environment -- to particular files, through a feature called "SmartSelect."
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Extreme Apple Makeover: College Edition June 08, 2007 
Pennsylvania's Wilkes University is one of the first colleges in the country to become a bubble of apples: an all-Mac campus, switching from Windows-based PCs to Apple's new Intel-based units. University officials began the transition last fall and expect the process to be completed two years from now. Apple is providing volume discounts to help finance the PC phase-out.
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Migrating to the Mac Infrastructure April 09, 2007 
In a perfect business world, computer users would have a hardware system that worked out of the box. That computer would enhance productivity without posing critical security risks to company data. The ideal business computer would not be one of hundreds of variants supported by a litany of development communities.
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Apple Embraces Windows Vista With Boot Camp Update March 29, 2007 
Users of Intel-based Mac computers can now have the best of both the Microsoft world and the Apple world. The latest update to Apple's Boot Camp software, which enables Intel-based Macs to reboot into a Windows operating system partition, supports Vista, Microsoft's latest version of Windows.
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VMware Beta Offers Windows Option for Mac Users March 05, 2007 
Virtualization heavy hitter VMware has unveiled an updated, beta version of "Fusion," a product that allows Intel-based Mac users to run Windows or any other x86 operating systems simultaneously. The product, available as a free download from VMware's Web site, updates a prior Fusion beta released in December.
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New Parallels Desktop Opens Door to Vista February 27, 2007 
Parallels, a virtualization application vendor, Monday released the newest version of its Desktop for Mac product which allows owners of Intel-based Mac computers to simultaneously run Windows and other operating systems without rebooting. The new Parallels version has been in beta testing for two to three months.
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Linux on Mac Could Spike Attackers' Interest April 22, 2006 
Mac enthusiasts have pushed Apple's Boot Camp one step further to support Linux on the Intel-based Mac product line. Apple released Boot Camp -- software that dual boots OS X and Windows XP on Intel-based Macs -- after a Mac fan figured out how to do it and released the source code. Now, open source software is available that allows Mac users to load Linux onto the Intel-based Mac as well.
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Apple Intros Software to Run Windows on a Mac April 05, 2006 
Apple on Wednesday introduced new software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Microsoft Windows XP. Dubbed Boot Camp, the public beta software is available as a download to allow users with a Windows XP installation disc to load the competing operating system.
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Intel Looks to Transitive for RISC-Enabled Chips March 07, 2006 
Emulation and translation software company Transitive announced on Tuesday it's collaborating with Intel to drive the migration of older, RISC environments and applications that previously ran on non-Intel hardware to Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors.
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The Evolution of Online Games and the Next iPod March 07, 2005 
Last week was a busy week. It started with the Intel Developer Forum and ended with an American Press Institute roundtable on the future of media. We'll cover the second event another week because there were two things I saw while at the Intel event that I believe are potentially market breakers.
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CherryOS Sparks Talk of Virtualization Wars October 21, 2004 
As the tech world focuses on digital media, quarterly earnings and search engine functionality, the battle of the future is starting to take shape. Some analysts are calling it one of the biggest high-tech trends for the second half of the decade. What is it? A one-word battle cry: "Virtualization!"
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Microsoft Unveils Virtual Server 2004 Beta February 19, 2004 
As operating system migration has become more of an issue, particularly for Microsoft administrators, the company has responded by releasing a beta version of Virtual Server 2004, which promises to pave a gentle migration path to Windows Server 2003 while working with older Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems.
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