Archive for March, 2009

Running VMware Fusion On A Windows XP Virtual Machine

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I just upgraded VMware Fusion from 2.0 to 2.0.2 and now when I try to run my Microsoft Windows XP virtual machine, it doesn’t run, it first tells me that I have an old virtual machine and need to upgrade it, then tells me that VMware Fusion cannot connect to the virtual machine. What’s wrong and how do I fix it? (more…)

Windows 7 May Allow Internet Explorer 8-ectomy

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

We all know that Windows controls (at least) 90 percent of the PC market, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.  Internet Explorer is steadily losing users, however, and if you’re one of the folks who have switched to Firefox or Chrome, it may interest you to know that there’s a possibility Internet Explorer 8 won’t be inseparable from Windows 7.

A recent test version of Windows 7 (build 7048) is similar to many others insofar as it gives users the opportunity to turn features on and off.  Chris Holmes and Bryant Zadegan noticed that this build lists IE8 among the many other options, though, and they got a screenshot as proof.

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