Category Archives: Windows Vista

Macworld: Running Vista Home on a Mac

Macworld has a hands on with Microsoft Windows Vista Home, loading it up under Parallels Desktop and Apple’s Boot Camp. They were able to install it under Parallels. Excerpt: If you care about running Windows on a Mac, you’ve undoubtedly … Continue reading

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Parallels Desktop and Web Design (37signals)

37signals has an interesting article about how they use Parallels Desktop: Parallels is an indispensable tool that lets us test our applications in all the browsers we support on a single computer. We can even test IE 6 and 7 … Continue reading

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Parallels Desktop – Build 1898 (Mac Pro/iMac Core 2 Duo) – Vista

They’ve just made available a new Parallels Desktop build for Mac Pro/iMac Core 2 Duo users, that includes support for Microsoft Windows Vista: We have just made available a new build (1898) for Desktop for Mac that substantially improves Mac … Continue reading

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Virtual PC Free (for PCs) and Windows Vista Licensing

Microsoft had a couple of interesting announcements yesterday on the “Virtually Vista” blog concerning Virtual PC and Microsoft Windows Vista and Virtualization. The first was that Virtual PC (Microsoft.com) (for PCs) would be free. Virtual PC for Macs would not … Continue reading

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