Dear Parallels,
I’ll always cherish the time we spent together. You saved me from the social stigma of needing a rack of boxen against the wall so I could test drive Red Hat, Ubuntu, and SUSE all within 10 minutes on a MacBook. You allowed me to use Microsoft Windows in the same manner that I use Kleenex™ - Once it was filled with Mal-Ware, I could simply throw the mess away, and a new clean one would be ready for use. You helped me explore why ‘upgrade’ is the wrong verb to use when describing the migration from XP to Vista.
I’ll remember our halcyon days of yester-year with misty water-colored memories. But since I have met VMWare Fusion, I can not be parted from it. Not only does it seamlessly share appliances with ALL VMWare products (Including ESX Server - More to come on this essential technology), but it is much faster (Note to CNET: Is there a sane rationale for virtualizing Windows on a Mac to run Adobe Photoshop?). And then there are the free promises of FusionV2…
DirectX support. Multi-Screen Support. A free upgrade & a $30 rebate, and I could have been knocked over by a feather.
Thank you for the fond memories, Parallels. Perhaps we will meet again in the future.
Brian Fedorko