Windows, Microsoft Virtual PC, and Parallels Workstation for Windows. Virtual PC for Windows and wrote a very favorable review of the product.įans did not translate into significant sales for Connectix Virtual PC for Would take that worry away completely.” Henry installed and used Connectix ![]() “I always worry when I install a beta of something on my system, andĪ few times that beta software has really messed up my system. Immediately saw how Undo Drives would be a great feature for any technologyĬolumnist. The Undo Drives tool is even more powerful than Windows Restore Points because restore points can fail. Then push the “Undo” button, and it’s as if none of these things ever happened. Install applications, add files, get a virus by visiting a dodgy website, delete a file, uninstall an application, change any system preferences you want-even over several days of use. Turn on Undo Drives, and then do anything you want in the system. Undo Drives is an advanced feature of most desktop virtualization products. (See sidebar on Undo Drives, a feature that is in today’s Parallels Desktop® for Mac, as well as the three products mentioned at the beginning of this blog post.) Then I gave a demo of the Undo Drives feature. I gave Henry a demo of the basics of Connectix Virtual PC for Windows, and everything worked well-but he was not at all impressed. At the beginning of the meeting, Norr said, “I only took this meeting because of your reputation, but I have to tell you that the idea of a Virtual PC for Windows is one of the silliest ideas I have ever heard. ![]() I gave a demo of Connectix Virtual PC for Windows to Henry Norr, then a technology columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. One particular example is rather interesting. They all had the integration features you would expect: drag and dropįrom one OS to another, run applications in the virtualized OS, use the networkĬonnection of your computer to give the virtualized OS a network connection, andĪnd these products all had their fans. ![]() ![]() Virtualization app to do: run another operating system (OS) in a window on yourĬomputer. Products worked well and did exactly what you would expect a desktop Figure 1_Some desktop virtualization apps for Windows
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