VMWare 5 and productivity
I have just installed VMWare 5 on my main desktop machine (2GB) and my TC1100 Tablet (1.5GB) and I have been very impressed, I have also along the way been very impressed by the latest crop of Microsoft Servers. Here is a quick run through of the last couple of days.
I have been feeling really rotten for the last 48 hours due mainly to a short lived virus that has wrought havoc with my already screwed up immune system. As a result I needed some distractions, playing around with VMWare 5 seemed the ideal solution. Here’s how I spent the worst hours of the last 2 days:
- Installed VMWare 5, that was very easy – my best VMWare experience to date and so much better than my experience with Virtual Server 2005 the day before. I liked the idea of Virtual Server because it would allow me to use its Active X control console to embed live Windows Sessions in my PowerPoint presentations. In the end I hated Virtual Server so much by comparison with the ultra slick VMWare that I gave up on the idea. Later I remembered I could probably do the same thing with the RDP …