As a Mac user you might be interested in the latest VMware Fusion & Fusion Professional update to version 5.0.3. This was releases two days ago and is a freely available maintenance release which includes a few bug fixes. Here’s the information from the release notes.

• Added support for Boot Camp partitions on 3TB disk drives.
• Improved the cursor performance for select applications, especially when in Unity mode.
• McAfee AntiVirus Plus updated with Windows 8 support.
• Resolved an issue that could result in blurry graphics under certain circumstances.
• Resolved an issue that resulted in horizontal scrolling being reversed in Unity mode.
• Resolved an issue with displaying Office 2013 applications on some recent Macs.
• Improvements to vSockets.

 To upgrade to the latest version please use the integrated Fusion updater.

Link: http://www.vmware.com/support/fusion5/doc/fusion-503-release-notes.html

VMware has published the VMware Horizon Workplace app to the Apple AppStore.

Source (Screenshots): Apple AppStore

VMware Horizon Workspace for iOS enables secure, anywhere access to files, applications and View Desktops from any device. To use VMware Horizon Workspace you need an account on your company’s internal VMware Horizon Workspace system, please contact your system administrator for details.

FEATURES:
*View all your files from your other computers and devices.
*Collaborate with people within or external to your organization.
*Upload new and manage your files and folders.
*View files even when offline.
*Access your enterprise applications from anywhere.
*Once device is authorized, no need to remember extra passwords.
*Open your View Desktop with HTML Access or View Client for iOS.
*Easily manage your device and data, including the ability to remote wipe from a central web console.
*Works with iOS 6.x and above

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-horizon-workspace/id582810532?ls=1&mt=8

Apple has just released the new version of it’s MacOS operating systems called Mountain Lion and of course the VMware View Client for Mac 1.5 is already compatible with it. A new function in Mountain Lion verifies the identity of a software developer and checks if a packet is signed. This is called Gatekeeper. You can directly download the 1.5 client from this page: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_view_clients/1_0.

Image source: http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef016768be9dda970b-650wi

Link: http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2012/07/vmware-view-client-for-mac-is-ready-for-os-x-mountain-lion.html

VMware yesterday released a new version of VMware Fusion, their virtualization solution for the Apple operating system. You can download the version at the download website. Fusion 3.1 has a huge number of new features which can found in the “What’s new section”. Additionally to the new features their are improvements for graphics, boot camp and pc migrations. Also Fusion 3.1 supports 10 more operating systems.

Tablet PC’s are not new to me – no I’m a proud IBM Thinkpad x61T user for over 3 years. When I’ve bought the tablet my objective was to write notes with the digitizer and do interactive presentations i.e. whiteboardings, directly on a blank Powerpoint presentation. People who attended my presentations were amazed about this presentation style because it was unique to them. I’ve seen Tablet PC’s really rarely in the past but I guess that will change soon. Apple lately started to roust the market when they announced the iPad, a tablet which can be used just with your fingers without any need for a digitizer. Well there is a onscreen keyboard but no digitizer, the reason for me to buy a Tablet PC years ago. It seems that vendors must have another objective as mine. Even the processing power in an iPad is not comparable to a standard PC but to be honest it doesn’t need to be because it’s designed to consume web services – no, to be clear here: applications hosted in the cloud! There are other hardware vendors who want to get a piece of the big cake! Last week, the CIO magazine published an article with the headline: Rumor: Cisco Wants to Come to the Tablet Party. A tipster hinted that Cisco is working on it’s own tablet device which is based on Google’s Android operating system. It should include a front facing camera, dual noise-cancelling microphones and VPN access. Cool ha? That sounds really interesting! What could you do with this device? Video conferencing? Having access to your virtual desktop? If this rumour comes truth I’m really looking forward to look deeper into it. It seems that Apple just started to revolutionize the tablet market, the iPad is great marketing for every tablet vendor and also for Software-as-a-Service.

VMware released the new version 3.0.1 of Fusion this morning. The download is available at the VMware website. Version 3.0.1 is a maintanance release and freely available for all Fusion customers. Check out the release notes and the what’s new document.

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