{"id":94,"date":"2006-12-22T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T12:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion-beta-program-is-now-live\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T21:08:57","slug":"vmware-fusion-beta-program-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion-beta-program-is-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Fusion Beta Program is Now Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/icon\/vmware_fusion.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"  alt=\"VMWare Fusion for Mac\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion\">VMWare Fusion<\/a> beta program is now live.  You can sign up for a beta key at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/beta\/fusion\/\">VMWare.com\/products\/beta\/fusion\/<\/a>.  It is currently free.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about it at one of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/console\/2006\/12\/a_holiday_gift_.html\">VMWare Blogs &#8211; &#8220;A Holiday Gift for Mac Users&#8221;<\/a>.  Quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a great time of year &#8211; everything is decorated and looks pretty, people are in a festive mood, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of great parties and everyone is exchanging gifts.  Talking about giving gifts, we have a holiday gift for the Mac community &#8211; the public beta for our new desktop product for Mac, codenamed Fusion, is now available. It is free but the beta requires a serial key, which you will get as part of the download process.<\/p>\n<p>We announced (press release, my blog) in August at WWDC that we are developing a desktop product for Mac.  We demoed an early version of the product during WWDC at the Four Seasons Hotel to a few hundred attendees who left the Moscone Center and walked 4 blocks to see the demo.  That was just the beginning!  70,000 customers pre-registered for the beta.  We released a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153friends and family\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version in October to a select few customers to get early feedback.  One incident sticks out in my mind when we visited a customer who was part of the friends and family program.  As soon as we sat down and before we could do any introductions, out came a credit card across the table and his voice boomed, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to buy it now!&#8221;  Well, we&#8217;re not quite ready to take orders just yet but we are ready to receive feedback from the larger Mac community.  That would be a great gift you can give us&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VMWare Fusion beta program is now live. You can sign up for a beta key at VMWare.com\/products\/beta\/fusion\/. It is currently free. You can read more &#8230; <a title=\"VMware Fusion Beta Program is Now Live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/macvm.com\/vmware-fusion-beta-program-is-now-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about VMware Fusion Beta Program is Now Live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}