Meet the VMware Fusion team at Macworld Expo 2007
I'm sure everyone's been having as much fun as I have playing with VMware's new virtualization solution for Mac. On the Fusion discussion forums, folks have been busy sharing their successes and stories, along with great suggestions and comments—not to toot my own horn, but I'm jazzed that the Fusion beta forum is even more busy than the Workstation 6 forum!
I've been busy as a beaver since the holidays ended, working away on fixes and features for the next Fusion beta. I can't discuss future functionality on this blog, but we've heard all the requests and bug reports our faithful beta testers have been submitting, and we're working hard to get as many as we can into the next beta.
The Fusion team will be at Macworld Conference and Expo 2007 in San Francisco's Moscone Center next week from Tuesday through Friday (9 January 2007–12 January 2007). Come meet the developers and producers who helped make VMware for Mac real, and share your thoughts and suggestions directly with the team who can make them happen. I'll be staffing the booth Tuesday, so I'll be looking forward to meeting some of you! Come find us in booth S339—we might have some goodies for you!
Looking at the teaser image on Apple's site, there will be some pretty crazy announcements from Apple coming. I can't wait to see what's coming for Jobsmas 2007! My personal predictions for what Apple will announce next Tuesday at the keynote:
- Dual quad-core Mac Pros (this is pretty much a gimme)
- Cinema Displays with built-in iSight cameras
- The iTV (renamed)
- A revamped UI and Finder for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Tons of folks are talking about a possible Apple cell phone (not the iPhone), but I'm still a little dubious. I've seen the patents that others have, but having lots of friends who work in the telecommunications industry, I'm not sure North American customers are willing to pay at all for their cell phone hardware. (A friend of mine who worked Cingular retail for a year said 8 or 9 out of 10 customers would take the free phone, and most of the rest took the next cheapest one).
That being said, European and Asian customers definitely love paying for the latest and greatest in slim, powerful cellphone technology, so Apple might have a market there. I know I'm out of the ordinary (I love my Sony Ericsson K790a, which syncs up perfectly with my Mac and lets me get fast wireless access anywhere), but maybe people will see the value in syncing up their computer, their music, address book, and email on one svelte device.
Here's looking forward to convergence! (It's a lot like virtualization, when you think about it—all your computers on one piece of hardware, right?)
