![]() Jobs said Boot Camp is "complementary" to Parallels or VMware. Boot Camp also enables a Mac computer to run Windows. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in 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. VMware and Parallels will work in the coming Mac OS X version 10.5, code-named Leopard, due in October. "The VMware Fusion Launcher allows you to search for and find Windows apps easily from your Mac without having to do anything extra. "Unity makes Windows apps work just like Mac apps," said Patrick Lee, senior product manager for VMware. Icons for Windows applications will be displayed along with those of Mac applications in the dock at the bottom of the computer screen. VMware says one key feature of Fusion, called Unity, allows for seamless transition from Mac to Windows applications. 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 released Fusion Beta 4 for Macs on Thursday. ![]() It is for people who use a Mac but also want to use software applications written only for Windows. priced its Parallels Desktop version 3.0 at $79.99 when it became generally available Thursday, and $39.99 for users upgrading from a previous version of Parallels.īoth make it possible for Mac users to run the Windows OS from Microsoft Corp. 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. is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels Inc.'s software announced last week. ![]()
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