I realize that many of you (okay, maybe one of you) have been waiting for me to post some thoughts about the recent Windows-on-Mac developments. And I will, Any Day Now.
But in the meantime, check out some of this TidBITS coverage: an excellent article on BootCamp, a brilliant discussion of virtual machines, and a very interesting earlier article about a Windows guy who switched to Mac and how he tried to keep himself enterprise-friendly.
1) Virtualization vs. dual-boot: Either these guys don’t get it, or I don’t get it. If you could dual-boot and run your Windows apps natively, why would you settle for running them in a virtual environment? By definition, it has to be slower and/or contain some kind of incompatability. It’s like drinking an RC Cola instead of a Coke because the RC Cola can is six inches closer to your hand…
2) The Switcher: These two comments made me laugh, only because we argued about them in my blog just recently:
“The custom VPN client for our corporate network doesn’t run on Intel-based Macs”
and
“dual-booters might consider virtualization instead. Personally I don’t care about dual-booting; I’d rather work in the superior look and feel of Mac OS X and just open that Windows window when needed.”
So the software doesn’t work now, but you have no interest in using the environment it was DESIGNED to work in, but you’re hopeful for an in-between solution that will probably work, and somehow see this as a better solution.
Strange…