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Holiday Discounts from VMware

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Tis the season, for giving and receiving.  And for a limit time, VMware (my employer) is allow me to give a special Friends and Family discount to all my readers.  If you haven’t discovered the joy of virtualization for your personal computer, running multiple operating systems on your home PC or laptop, now is your chance:

For years I have used VMware Workstation to run demos and test environments on my laptop and desktops (the snapshot capability has literally saved me weeks of work over the years).  Now, since I made the switch to the Mac, I use VMware Fusion to do the same.  With this 50% off coupon, you can enjoy the same benefits immediately.   (Remember, this discount ends on 1/15/2009!)

Cyber Monday Deal on VMware Fusion

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As I leaked out early this morning via Twitter, VMware has a Cyber Monday deal on Fusion.   Visit the VMware store and enter the coupon code “CyberMondayDeal“.  You have to hurry as this offer expires at 11:59PM PT today.

If you happen to be a user of Parallels or Virtual PC 7.0 and want to upgrade to Fusion, there is also a competitive upgrade rebate that is going on.

If you combine the Cyber Monday Deal with the competitive upgrade rebate, you can get Fusion for 9.99! (not including tax/s&h)

I have been running a Virtual Machine on my laptop daily for over 3 years now and been using it regularly for over 6 years (well before joining VMware); since moving to the Mac, Fusion has allowed me to keep leveraging virtualization locally on my MacBook Pro  to boost my productivity.  Use these deals to pick up your copy of Fusion today.

VMware Fusion 2.0 Available

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Amid all the announcements at VMworld this past week, the release of Fusion 2.0 could easily be missed. Fusion 2.0 includes over 100 new features and enhancements over the previous release.  Best of all, Fusion 1.1 users get a free upgrade to 2.0; just download 2.0 and use your existing license!

Personally, I use Fusion daily and have been using 2.0 in “production” since the first beta (it was stable enough for me to use it everyday on my MacBook Pro).  Some of my favorite improvements include:

  • Support for multiple snapshots and AutoProtect (which will take automatic snapshots for you)
  • Virtual machine library which allows you to easily view and run multiple VMs you may have on your make (just like in Workstation)
  • Ability to mirror folders between your Windows Guest and your Mac, always have key documents available regardless of which OS you are in
  • Universal URL handling so that clicking a URL in the Guest or Host OS opens the URL in the browser of your choice, in either the Guest or Host.

You can see the full list of features on the Fusion 2.0 Release Notes.