#Vmware fusion 8 pro vs standard upgrade

Worse, for both products, this marks the second time in a row their companies have offered pricey minor updates - a behavior that users should not support.

#Vmware fusion 8 pro vs standard upgrade

Is either worth the $50 upgrade fee? I don't think so. For example, both companies note AirPlay mirroring support as a new feature when, in fact, this OS X Mountain Lion capability requires no changes in an application to support it - anything on your screen is mirrored, no matter how old it is. Worse, both companies' marketing sometimes implies they offer more than they do. For example, both products' previous versions also run on OS X Mountain Lion and support Windows 8 and Mountain Lion clients, if not quite as smoothly as the new versions do. Note that both VMware and Parallels offer enterprise editions that provide the kind of policy management of Windows VMs that IT often imposes on actual Windows PCs.īut if you read the promos carefully, you'll notice not much is actually new. New Fusion licenses also run $50, while new Parallels licenses cost $80. Both cost $50 for an upgrade from a recent version. Both Fusion 5 and Parallels Desktop 8 extend the host support to OS X Mountain Lion and the client VM support to Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion.

Those products are VMware's Fusion and Parallels Desktop, which let you run Windows, OS X, Linux, and Chrome OS virtual machines on OS X hosts.

26 but available for download by developers and Microsoft partners) come updates to two products that bring the two OSes together. About a month after Apple released OS X Mountain Lion and two weeks after Microsoft finalized Windows 8 (not shipping until Oct. It's a rare year that sees updates to both OS X and Windows, but 2012 marks such an occasion.