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Everyone's got a joy in life. Some folks build exquisite models of ships and shove 'em in a bottle. Others whip up imaginative, fresh cuisine and share it with the world. Me, I write code. My personal joie de vivre is forging that easy, effortless bond between people and the electronic stuff they use every day to make their lives go—computers, cars, cell phones, you name it.
Over the past year, I've been crafting VMware Fusion for Mac, a killer piece of software that lets Apple-heads do the unthinkable: run Windows, Linux, orany other operating system right alongside their Mac applications. This isn't your average Boot Camp, where youhave to restart your computer every time you need to switch between Windows and Mac OS. VMware is way cooler, and totally changes the way you use a computer.
Fusion lets you use your Mac for all the stuff it's great at (I couldn't live without my NetNewsWire, Adium, and WriteRoom), and—just when you need it—you can pop up Windows and get to that one darned app (or game) that still doesn't run on the Mac. Just like a laptop, you can put Windows to sleep when you don't want it chewing up memory, and you can instantly wake it up from inside your Mac when you just need access to a few apps.
You can drag and drop files to and from your Mac and Windows to transfer stuff back and forth, and plug high-speed USB gadgets into your Mac (even ones that don't work on the Mac!) and they'll show up right in Windows: no configuration needed. All this is built on the same rock-solid code that makes VMware's other killer products work so well, and you can take your virtual machines from Fusion and use them as-is on any of our other products.
There's a ton of great stuff built into Fusion, and I'm going to be using this blog to talk about what it was like to make it, and share thoughts about developing on the Mac. Some of this will be a little techy, but I also like to write about non-technical subjects, so (knock on aluminum) this'll be pretty entertaining for everyone.
Be seeing you!
