OT: vista cool feature!

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>At Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:54:58AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
>suspect Kenneth Brody was observed uttering:
>> The rest of the blob talks about programs (some of them free) that
>> add this functionality to XP.
>> 
>> Some of the names are Colibri, Launchy, and SlickRun.
>> 
>> I have never used them, so I can only comment about the fact that
>> posts on this blog point out that installing Vista just for this
>> single feature is overkill.
>
>And will suck all but the best current hardware dry for the top versions,
>from what I've heard.  Of course, I know what -one- of John's systems is,
>and there's not much worry there.  But why feed power to the OS when it
>could go to applications?

The main topic of the local Apple users group main meeting this month was
Parallels which allows one to run Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and
other Intel-based Operating Systems under OS X on the new Intel based Macs
(they had a drawing for a couple of copies of Parallels, but I didn't buy
any tickets as winning would have meant that I would simply have to buy a
new Intel Mac as the two I have are PowerPC :-).

The folks from Parallels did say that the performance of XP is far better
than Vista under Parallels (surprise, surprise :-), and recommended that
one stick with XP.  The Microsoft EULA prohibits running any of the
lower-priced versions of Vista under any virtualization such as Parallels,
Xen, or VMWare.

I have a friend who works for Sun who uses one of the new Apple Quad towers
with three monitors, running Windows and Solaris on top of OS X.  He has
Windows on one monitor and splits his other tasks between the other two.

...
Bill
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