VMWare Fusion April 2008 Update

Mon 28 Apr 2008

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My experience with VMWare Fusion has honestly been excellent.  All the software I installed in the Windows XP virtual machine has worked perfectly.  However I haven’t installed any games just yet.  That said I don’t intend to since I don’t use the Macbook for games but for software development.

The only remaining flaw is the previously mentioned copy and paste issue and of course the still unfixed language problems with XP.  I’ve always had the problem of trying to get the OS to default to English Australian rather than US.

Windows Vista in March 2008

Thu 13 Mar 2008

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Windows Vista is being annoying again.  I have been installing all the upgrades to Vista as they become available.  However I have not seen any improvements at all.  There are 2 really annoying things I’ve been trying to stop the OS from doing and have so far been unsuccessful.

1- Internet Explorer opens tabs and new windows when it wants to.  It does not do what I tell it.  They aren’t pop-ups or anything.   This is a joke and a long running one.

2 – If you have a dial-up account Vista decides that it will be the default connection and the log in box appears when it feels like it, often when it is most annoying.   I have tried everything to stop it appearing but it won’t stop it.  This started when I created a new dail-up connection to be used in emergencies.

These Vista problems should not occur on a PC that has been clean installed with all the patches, with only an additional graphic editor and the MS Office package installed.

Does VMware work with ActiveSync?

Tue 11 Mar 2008

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Yes, ActiveSync 4.5 (Build 5096) works perfectly with the virtual XP installation.  I use ActiveSync for my Windows Mobile based IPAQ 110 that Sync’s with Outlook 2002.  It works perfectly.

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