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StyleTap has released a proof of concept for a Palm emulator. If this happens, one of my last reasons not to get an iPhone will be gone. I've been an avid Palm user for years and have a huge investment in software, eBooks, etc. Until I have a way to port them, I'll keep using my Treo (or Centro?).

VMWare, though while not releasing the official 4.0 version, it taking orders. Pricing is $79.99 (the same as Parallels). They’re offering special pre-order pricing of $39.99.

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Parallels 3.0 for Mac is out now. I must say, I like what I’ve seen. Upgrades are $49.

IEBlog : IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine

Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it’s unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as IE6 or IE7 would work when installed properly. As Chris said, the best way to use multiple versions of IE on one machine is via virtualization. Microsoft has recently made Virtual PC 2004 a free download; we’ve taken advantage of that by releasing a VPC virtual machine image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit to help facilitate your testing and development. The image is time bombed and will no longer function after April 1, 2007. We hope to continue to provide these images in the future as a service to web developers. I’m still not sure I’m thrilled with upgrading to IE on my primary box, but it might be the best of all worlds.

Microsoft’s taken off the gloves by releasing Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition for free. VMware be warned! VMware has only released the VMware Player for free. The battle for virtualization is on! Exciting times with the free VMware Player, free VirtualPC Server, and Xen, Boot Camp, and Parallels.

I’m a big fan of virtualization and VMWare (or VirtualPC). VMWare has made a big move by releasing a free VMware Player. In addition to running VMs created by VMware Workstation etc, it also “supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats”. That’s so cool. Free VMs from Microsoft like Fabrikam should work just fine (though I haven’t tried it yet).

Now anyone cam play with RedHat linux or Ubuntu Linux without having to setup a dual-boot environment. There are alo Community Virtual Machines of OpenBSD and Fedora Core among others.

Here’s what I really like about it, though, coming from a training environment. A vmware image can be created and then distributed internally to provide a real training environment. Yes, remote access solutions are great, but they’re not always practical. A lot of the stuff I do require a connection to a SQL server or Exchange etc. How sweet is this?