Hmm, it's not clear what's going on yet. Dell is buying EMC and EMC owns
VMWare. They are sacking all the US developers and going to put
resources behind "growth products" but I thought I read that they also
would be continuing development overseas? Odd quotes like in this article:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/vmware-fusion-workstation-team-culled-in-company-restructure/
When contacted to comment, a VMware spokesman said that the company was
committed to continuing development and support for Fusion and
Workstation and that the company was "transitioning the Fusion and
Workstation teams to co-locate" with the rest of the company as part of
its reorganization. "Our commitment to Fusion and Workstation products
is unchanged," he said.
Maybe trying to pull a Disney on their engineering costs?
CB
On 1/27/16 10:26 PM, BBS wrote:
Hmmm. I guess that means that we'll have to find Mac developers that would be
willing to make QuentinC's Playroom available for the Mac for free since
Aminiel refuses to make one himself. That's one of the reasons I use Windows is
so I can play those games. Yeah I know about the web client, but if you read my
post about it in an older thread about why people use Windows, you'll know why
I dislike it.
Shawn
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Subject: Re: VMware fires US dev team behind Workstation and Fusion
I still have a virtual machine running Windows 7 on my MacBook air, but I only
use it for those rare occasions when I need access to a flash player-based
website. It's really bad when you can't play flash content on a mac system.
I've run google chrome and Safari, but they can't even see the flash player on
a certain website that I really need. So, I resurrected my Windows 7
installation and it works like a charm with Internet explore.
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On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:01 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
I guess this means there will be no more upgrades to fusion, I no longer use it
as I have no more need for Windows on my home computers, and, honestly, I think
since Windows 8, it has really gone down hill. But it was a great product when
I used it, and very accessible. There are alternatives, though not very
accessible. There's another paid product called parallels but it's not
voiceover accessible. Virtual box is free, but also not accessible. Then
there's boot camp, but that requires sighted help to get Windows installed. At
least more software is now being developed for the mac, so Windows should be
needed less on these computers.
On Jan 27, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
We'll have to pester virtualbox to become more accessible, as I just can't wrap
my head around the inner workings of the program to work with its CLI interface.
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On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/vmware_fusion_and_workstation_development_team_fired/
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/vmware_fusion_and_workstation_development_team_fired/>
I guess I won’t see my feature request for serial ports as sockets implemented
in Fusion, then. :(
This is really sad news. But of course, I understand it, on a practical,
realistic level: desktop virtualisation is now something of a fringe market,
there are free products available and those that compete economically and
favourably for consumers, and even on the server virtualisation is readily
available and incorporated as parts of technology stacks. And if VMWare’s
products are profitable, it’s only because they’re already asking too much. So
who’s going to be too bothered, apart from the awesome people behind the
technologies, and a bunch of geeks? Oh yeah, and blind Mac users unable to use
any of the alternatives?
We shall have to see what happens.
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