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VMWare 3 Promises Improved Performance

October 7, 2009

I have been using VMWare Fusion fairly regularly for the last 18 months or so, but I’ve never loved it. I consistently run into seemingly random bottlenecks and slowdowns in system performance despite having tried a number of tricks to improve VM performance and reallocate memory. My fingers are crossed that this update will address these issues.

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The Device Driver Got Stuck In An Infinite Loop

September 22, 2009

This screen popped up in VMWare Fusion today in the middle of Outlook synchronizing with my Exchange server (yep… still using Outlook over Entourage or Mail.app until we upgrade to Exchange 2007 / 2010).
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen something like this — I forgot how horribly great Windows error screens can be.  When I [...]

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BusinessWeek on Using Outlook on a Mac

December 4, 2008

Not to beat a dead horse on the whole virtualization and Outlook on a Mac topic, but I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across an article on Businessweek.com from yesterday that talks about the same issues I wrote about in my switch to using Outlook on the Mac.

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This Virtual Machine Appears To Be In Use…

December 4, 2008

Now that I am using VMWare Fusion on a regular basis, I am learning the application a lot better, and this includes how to deal with typical issues that arise with day-to-day usage. Yesterday, I powered up my laptop after it had unexpectedly lost power and saw that my virtual machine was “locked”. In this state my Windows VM would not start, but I was able to figure out how to resolve the error.

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Making the Move from Entourage to Outlook

December 2, 2008

I have been using Microsoft Entourage 2008 as the email client on my Mac for almost a year now and while it is not perfect, it provides the best Microsoft Exchange support out-of-the-box of any native Mac email application. That said, about two weeks ago I had to abandon ship on Entourage. I suffered a major Entourage meltdown, and it frustrated me enough that I made a hard switch over to nothing other than Microsoft Outlook.

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