Run any Windows OS from XP to 8 on a Mac with VMware Fusion.
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VMware's Fusion for Mac is among the company's most successful consumer products, used by millions of Mac owners to run Windows and Linux virtual machines. But VMware is now reaching into its expertise in IT to pitch Fusion to businesses, with a new professional version designed to provision (mostly Windows) applications to employees or contractors who use Macs.
The Fusion professional edition is one of several upgrades announced on Thursday for VMware's desktop virtual machine products for OS X and Windows. Fusion 5, as expected, adds optimizations for OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 8 (although Fusion 4 will work with those operating systems just fine if you prefer not to upgrade). Workstation 9 for Windows and Linux adds optimizations for Windows 8, allowing Microsoft's touch interface for Windows 8 to be manipulated inside a virtual machine, just as if you were using a "real" Windows 8 touchscreen computer.
Both Fusion and Workstation have "millions" of users. While VMware wouldn't tell us exact user counts, it did say that Fusion is more popular—perhaps not surprising as it's a consumer product. Fusion 5 is the first to also come as a professional edition. It has the same features as the consumer software, plus the ability to create "restricted virtual machines" in which IT shops can provision Windows apps to users while imposing restrictions designed to prevent data leakage. It works with any Windows operating system from XP to 8.
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