Comments on: Microsoft prepares for battle against VMWare

By: gomen

gomen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:30:59 +0000

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for me.

By: jt

jt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:12:52 +0000

sick, VMWARE bought thinstall – maybe better support for portable – yay!

By: venomhed

venomhed — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:52:23 +0000

Virtualization has been used for Decades eh? Hmmm, I don’t recall my 8088xt being virtualized.

Anyways, I had the VMware stock day one, bought at $50, sold at $70, made about 4k in 7 days, nice. Was up to $112!

The competition is great for all of us, but Vmware will win easily. Their server product, free and fully functional, kicks so much as I have deployed it full force on high end servers at clients, no issues, no problems, quick restores and recovery as well as consolidation. Its a dream come true.

MS might have a good product but so far they have licensing. Who the F is going to use it when it costs something and is inferior to VMware?

Stupid MS.

By: Atlas

Atlas — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:07:42 +0000

what a joke. in true M$ fashion, this will only run on windows and emulate windows. You will have massive feature restrictions for bullsh*t reasons designed to srew up every other OS you have as a client or host. Then, you’ll find out that the security implementation is so poor that hackers will penetrate the sandbox and attack the host. Oh, don;t forget meaningless update cycles and versions that force you to upgrade your servers to push the sales of intel xeon cpu’s.

Prognosis: EPIC FAIL

By: virtualbox

virtualbox — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:09:29 +0000

http://www.virtualbox.org/

By: đenson

đenson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:42:08 +0000

i thought they are going to make VMware so that we could run MacOS on windows

By: Mantra

Mantra — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:02:25 +0000

Yeah, but MS can make a VM client that runs Windows without hiccups
way more easily than any other for obvious reasons.
I wonder about Linux support, though.

Either way, it’s good news, Microsoft is coming of age and is throwing
out nice things (http://labs.live.com/ has some nice gnarly stuff).

By: jordansky

jordansky — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:10:02 +0000

I use VMware Fusion to run Windows on my Mac.

By: YeahRight

YeahRight — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:06:36 +0000

Yawn. Looks like someone cut-and-pasted “VMware” into one of the old “Thin clients are going to destroy MS” articles from the late 90s.

By: Jasin_Z28

Jasin_Z28 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:22:29 +0000

hay Martin! get ready for a larger user alliance I passed out a SH1TLOAD of flyers about your great site at my work and at The University of Texas!!

By: Edna Flaite

Edna Flaite — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:18:44 +0000

I feel your pain….

By: Edna Flaite

Edna Flaite — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:17:53 +0000

God bless Microsoft