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1. Comment - Microsoft Outlines ERP Roadmap

   (Jun 28, 2004 - 3:49 PM)

   utomo says "Quote: "Great Plains 8.0 is scheduled to be available beginning in June" ?
   The article it self is mid of June.
   so when we actually will got it ? "
   
   Great Plains 8.0 was released officially on June 21st and was available via Microsoft Business Solutions reselling partners that same day.

2. Comment - VMware Introduces Workstation 4.5

   (Apr 14, 2004 - 4:48 PM)

   "It is direct access to many devices, but I didn't say for all devices."
   
   Actually you said "VMWare doesn't rely on emulation."
   That is an incorrect statement. VMware "relies on emulation" for video, sound, network, serial ports, parallel ports, floppy, IDE, and SCSI controller.
   
   "However, for VPC, it emulates both Video Card and sound Card."
   
   And VMware emulates both Video Card and Sound Card. So what's your point? How does VPC emulating those two areas make any difference when VMware emulates both of those as well?
   
   "If you time the amount it takes to install Linux on VPC and VMWare, VPC used to take less time to install."
   
   Sorry if that has been your personal experience. I can personally vouch for the fact that your experience is not universal (and not necessarily even common).

3. Comment - VMware Introduces Workstation 4.5

   (Apr 13, 2004 - 12:57 PM)

   "VMWare doesn't rely on emulation. It is a direct access layer to the actual hardware you own; thus it is superior than VPC is."
   
   Wrong. VMware virtualizes MANY devices, just not the CPU. Video card, sound card, NIC are all virtualized devices for example.
   
   "VPC has always been reknown as the truly emulator because it emulates the video card, sound card and pretty much every piece of hardware is emulated."
   
   VPC emulates about the same amount that VMware does. VPC does a little extra virtualization in the processor area, but the majority of CPU calls are sent directly to the hardware. (VirtualPC for Macintosh emulated ALL of the hardware, but it is a completely different product than the VPC described in the article and under discussion here)
   
   "Even Linux guru confirms that in term of Linux installation, VPC wins the contest against VMWare."
   
   Actually, the only significant difference between the two for Linux installation used to be that Linux distributions didn't come with the video driver needed for VMware guests, so it had to be installed separately. That hasn't been true anymore for quite some time now. For any Linux distribution supported as a VMware guest, installation is as simple as installation on native hardware. (of course, VPC doesn't support ANY Linux distributions as guests anymore)
   
   "...VMWare runs so much smooth and faster in Linux."
   
   VMware is the only one of the two that runs on Linux. VPC has never had a Linux version.
   
   "Of course, Linux runs on VPC 2004, but never as good as it used to be."
   
   For now at least. When MS bought VPC from Connectix they stopped supporting non-MS operating systems as guests. They have since stated that it is entirely possible that future versions may not even run non-MS guest operating systems.

4. Comment - VMware Introduces Workstation 4.5

   (Apr 12, 2004 - 8:13 PM)

   For most people VMware tends to be faster. In 30 side by side tests with identical hardware and identical tasks, VMware Workstation 4.0 was faster then Virtual PC 2004 in every case.
   
   I would tend to accept your claim as a valid example of you personal experience, however, if you hadn't mixed in provably bogus claims as well.
   
   You say "VMWare "emulates" more core processor functionality than VirtualPC does (perhaps for greater portablility), and therefore is slower."
   
   It is quite easy to verify the fact that VMware emulates *NO* "core processor functionality" at all. So please tell us how NONE is "more than" Virtual PC's amount?

5. Comment - Microsoft Remakes DRM for MSN Music Service

   (Apr 6, 2004 - 2:30 PM)

   Good point. I had missed that part.