Microsoft Ships Virtual Machine For Mac
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TechWeb - Microsoft ships Virtual PC for Mac, version 7.
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Microsoft Thursday did something it rarely does. The company released a beta for a long-awaited technology -- in this case its Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology Hyper-V -- ahead of schedule.Hyper-V, formerly code-named &quot;Viridian,&quot; is now available for download from Microsoft&#39;s Web site and is ready to be used with the current x64 beta version of Windows Server 2008, which is also available online. The technology, called a hypervisor, is the underlying virtualization technology for the server release, which is a major update that&#39;s expected to be released on Feb. 27, 2008. A beta of Hyper-V originally was planned to be released on that date as well.Virtualization, or the ability to use virtual machine technology to run multiple OSes on a physical server, is widely seen as a disruptive technology and is becoming increasingly important as companies seek to cut costs and consolidate hardware in their data centers and IT environments. Microsoft had originally intended to release Hyper-V as part of the original release Windows Server 2008, but the technology was delayed and is now scheduled to be generally available 180 days, or about six months, after Windows Server 2008 ships. Hyper-V&#39;s released was delayed earlier this year because Microsoft opted to pull out some originally planned features.Hyper-V takes advantage of virtualization-optimized microprocessors from Intel and&#160;AMD and is meant to help Microsoft compete with virtualization leader VMware, which already has hypervisor technology on the market. Hypervisors allow for cross-platform support so servers can run multiple versions of different OSes -- such as Windows and Linux -- side by side on one piece of hardware.Bill Hilf, general manager of Windows Server at Microsoft, said customers have been asking the company for a built-in virtualization technology that works directly within the Windows Server environment so it&#39;s easy to manage and implement. By design, Hyper-V is set up as what Microsoft calls a &quot;role&quot; within Windows Server 2008, and can be turned on or off as a customer wishes, he said. Roles are a new feature of the forthcoming release of the OS that allow servers to be set up so only the role or roles a customer wants them to play in the IT environment -- such as e-mail server or application server -- will be turned on.Mike Neal, general manager of virtualization at Microsoft, said Hyper-V is meant to make the virtualization market &quot;a two-horse race&quot; between Microsoft and VMware. However, with Hyper-V not scheduled to ship until the second half of next year, the company has a lot of ground to make up to topple VMware from its leadership position. And Microsoft also faces pressure in providing built-in OS virtualization from Linux leader Red Hat, which already has integrated cross-platform virtualization into Red Hat Enterprise Linux.Windows Server 2008 eventually will be available in multiple editions and will be offered with and without Hyper-V. Microsoft also plans to release a product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server specifically as a virtualization host environment in the second half of 2008.
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Microsoft outlined a new feature that will be included in Office 2008 for Mac.
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Parallels Desktop, virtual machine software for Intel Macs, has been updated for Leopard.
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A Hawaiian company specializing in streaming video claims to have developed a $50 software emulator that allows a Windows PC to run Apple Computer&#39;s Mac OS X. Maui X-Stream on Tuesday announced CherryOS, a virtual PC that mimics the hardware of a G4 Mac.
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Software virtualization company Parallels announced on Thursday that version 3.0 of its award-winning Parallels Desktop for Mac is now available as a beta release candidate. The final release of Parallels Desktop, which allows users to concurrently run Windows, Linux, or any other operating system with Mac&#39;s own OS X, is expected within a few weeks.
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VMware today introduced Fusion Beta 4, a new version of its virtualization software for Intel-based Macs.
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(InfoWorld) - VMware Inc. is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels Inc.'s software announced last week. VMware said that its Fusion software for Macintosh computers can be pre-ordered beginning Tuesday for US$39.99, and $79.99 when it becomes generally available near the end of August. Parallels Inc. priced its Parallels Desktop version 3.0 at $79.99 whenÂ it became generally available Thursday, and $39.99 for users upgrading from a previous version of Parallels. Both make it possible for Mac users to run the Windows OS from Microsoft Corp. alongside the Apple Inc. Mac OS X operating system. It is for people who use a Mac but also want to use software applications written only for Windows. VMware released Fusion Beta 4 for Macs on Thursday. Besides running Windows OSes, Fusion also runs Linux and Solaris-based applications without having to reboot the computer to switch from the Mac OS to another OS. VMware says one key feature of Fusion, called Unity, allows for seamless transition from Mac to Windows applications. Icons for Windows applications will be displayed along with those of Mac applications in the dock at the bottom of the computer screen. "Unity makes Windows apps work just like Mac apps," said Patrick Lee, senior product manager for VMware. "The VMware Fusion Launcher allows you to search for and find Windows apps easily from your Mac without having to do anything extra. You don't need to use the [Windows] start menu. The start menu goes away." VMware and Parallels will work in the coming Mac OS X version 10.5, code-named Leopard, due in October. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, inÂ a keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2007 Monday in San Francisco, said that Leopard will include Apple's Boot Camp as a standard feature. Boot Camp also enables a Mac computer to run Windows. Jobs said Boot Camp is "complementary" to Parallels or VMware. Someone could use either Boot Camp or the Parallels/VMware approach, or both, to give them different options for running Windows applications on a Mac, said Gordon Haff, principal IT advisor at research firm Illuminata Inc. "With Boot Camp, you would boot up into Windows running natively or you would boot up into OS X running natively. With VMware Fusion or Parallels, you'll boot up into Mac OS X and then will have a hosted Windows virtual machine running on top of OS X," Haff said. "There is no love lost," he said, between rivals VMware, a subsidiary of EMC Corp., and Parallels, which is owned by SWSoft Inc. While each touts features that distinguish it from the other, he believes their features are largely comparable. It became easier for Macs to run the Windows OS once Apple converted its computer line over to using chips from Intel Corp. in 2006.
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Free taste, pay for the whole pie Virtual Iron has popped out a new release of its server virtualization software, adding support for Microsoft's Windows operating system.â¦
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Both VMWare and Parallels update their virtualization software.
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MacCentral - Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit on Tuesday issued a patch for Virtual PC 7 that fixes a problem that occurred when running the software on Power Mac G5 computers with more than 2GB of RAM installed. Previously, Virtual PC 7 would not run on those computers, causing a fatal error that crashed the application. Microsoft also noted that Virtual PC 7.0.1 also offers stability improvements, although it wasn't more specific than that -- some users have reported problems with using USB devices and other issues.
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After two years of fits and starts, Microsoft will finally deliver its Virtual Server 2005 product, which company officials contend will be an important contributor to its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), the company&#39;s plan for managing distributed
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MacCentral - Microsoft Corp.'s Mac Business Unit (MacBU) on Tuesday announced the availability of Office 2004 for Mac Service Pack 1, an update for the latest Macintosh release of the company's popular productivity application software suite. The service pack "addresses potential security issues and bugs that [user] feedback played an important role in identifying," according to Microsoft. What's more, the new version features support for Microsoft Error Reporting Protocol (MERP), which allows customers to send bug reports to Microsoft anonymously.
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The Vista 'experiment' It's upgrade time for VMware's Lab Manager package.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. , seeking to  preserve the dominance of its Windows franchise, launched a new  software application that takes aim at VMware Inc. , the  leader in &quot;virtualization&quot; technology that allows a single  computer server to operate like many machines.
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Parallels updated its software that allows Mac users to run Windows within Mac OS X on Thursday, adding support for Vista Boot Camp partitions, among other enhancements.
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Virtualization on the Mac is a fairly new phenomenon, and getting here took some doing. Columnist Richard Hoffman explains.