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April 10, 2008

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Hot deal: Fusion for $40

Posted Apr. 10, ’08, 7:23 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Tips

VMware Fusion It’s no secret that despite owning Parallels, I’m a huge VMware Fusion fan. It is, by far, my favored way to run Windows on my Mac. I haven’t struggled with the stability issues that I ran into with Parallels virtualization product. It worked like a champ, right from the start. They may not have as aggressively added new features, but being able to work reliably was the ultimate feature for me.

Neither package has had a really major overhaul in a while (makes me wonder what might be in the works). Part of what attracted me to VMware’s product was the initial offering price of $40. The good news is that Amazon has that same price following a $20 mail in rebate. If you’re still in the market for a great way to run Windows on that Mac, this may be the best time to buy.


3 Comments

Anonymous said:

Yes, but if you buy something from Amazon, you'll also be supporting a near-monopoly in online books sales that's trying to force small publishers to use its own BookSurge print-on-demand affiliate rather than a much higher quality, better priced competitor, LightningSource. (Choosing LightningSource over BookSurge is about the easiest decision any author or publisher makes.)

You can get the details at Writers Weekly:

http://www.writersweekly.com/amazon.php

Both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have run articles on this. The charges being made are serious enough that the Washington State Attorney General's Office has begun an antitrust investigation. The AG has also suggested that, given the scope of Amazon's business, a federal investigation might be more appropriate. This is no small matter. It could become the antitrust debate of this decade like that over Microsoft was in the late 1990s. And the result could be another blow to Seattle's economy.

First Microsoft and now Amazon. What is there about Seattle that creates such corporate bullies?

April 10, 2008 9:59 AM
ken alters said:

I think its a bad sign if a company lowers their pricing ... I don't see how this is a sign of success.

msft will eat vmware alive.

April 10, 2008 5:51 PM
Anonymous said:

"I think its a bad sign if a company lowers their pricing ... I don't see how this is a sign of success."

Based on that thinking, the iPhone must be a flop? Companies lower pricing all the time, especially once the initial engineering cost have been recouped.

April 11, 2008 11:29 AM

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