Boring software

Vmware Fusion is released. But what a boring software. It just works as promised. All the unity problems of the RC1 are gone as far as I can say. Not even a restart of the Mac was needed for the upgrade. Now everybody is waiting for Apple’s announcements tomorrow.

At least the marketing

… is doing its job and updates the Parallels webpage. Wished the developers had updated the product itself as well after weeks of customer complains. During this sad play there is something funny at least on their site, maybe it has been mentioned many times before: 

In this point the marketing is right: Parallels has killed my Mac and my nerves so many times with their last release. Did I mention that I bought my Fusion licence a week ago and didn’t have any (yes, none, zero, niente) crash of Fusion yet?

Good reasons for switching to Fusion

Vmware’s Fusion is not released yet, still the RC1 feels so much better than what Parallels is offering now with their 3.0 release. Here are some good reasons to switch:

1. Fusion does not crash - I have been running it the whole day already without any crash, neither a kernel crash nor an application crash. With Parallels I have the latter every hour or so at least.
2. When clicking on one of the Dock icons of Windows application, sometimes (often in fact) Parallels does not come into foreground anymore. You can suspend Parallels though and resume it as a workaround, but the next point relativizes this solution.
3. Parallels Suspend/Resume in version 3.0 is not stable - sometimes it works, then other times it just stays there telling me it is resuming right now.

I really have no idea how the quality assurance team at Parallels was able to oversee any of these points. Any one of them would a good reason alone to do the switch.

And a small collection of less important differences:

• sound playback in Fusion is with less noise, i.e. less interruptions
• Coherence is smoother than Unity in Fusion
• Drag’n'drop works in both, but running OSX apps from Win and vice versa is Parallels only
• Resume/Suspend seems faster in Fusion (and stable in fact, compare above 3.)
• CPU consumption of an idle Windows XP gives >10% in Parallels, but only half in Fusion

Wer seine Kunden…

dank panischer Angst vor dem Platzhirsch mit einer feature-vollgestopften Version 3.0 beglückt, diese aber mit so vielen Fehlern ausliefert, dass man nach kurzer Zeit bereut, dass man sich durch allerhand süße Versprechungen hinreißen ließ, das Update für die eigentlich doch stabil laufenden alte Version zu starten, und dann die neue Version die Daten unlesbar für die alte Version macht, und dann auch nach 4 Wochen noch kein Bugfix-Release da ist … tja, der muss damit rechnen, dass die Kunden alle weglaufen, und vielleicht auch nicht so schnell wiederkommen. Armes (?) Parallels.