VMWare... a head above VirtualPC?
I just read Joel Spolsky’s writeup of VMWare and I must admit that VMWare seems a generation beyond Microsoft acquired VirtualPC (I’ve written about VirtualPC before.)
I say this primarily because of the ability to run VM’s in tabs and the ability to create tree structures of systems with minor differences. Read Joel’s post and you’ll get it.
That said, I think Microsoft will be close on the heels of VMWare since:
- Adding a tabbed interface has to be very simple and it seems like a no-brainer feature
- Microsoft already has the concept of an undo disk, which is the first step toward the VMWare hierarchical system version feature (or whatever you call it)
Not that VirtualPC sucks, I think it’s actually quite good, but it will suck less over time like most Microsoft products.