{"id":59,"date":"2006-08-09T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-12-18T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:23:15","slug":"microsoft-shelves-its-virtual-pc-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/microsoft-shelves-its-virtual-pc-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Shelves its Virtual PC for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is putting a halt to a version of its Virtual PC software for Intel-based Macs. The move comes after start-up Parallels introduced its own virtualization software for running Windows on a Mac, and VMware said Monday it plans to provide a beta version of Mac virtualization software later this year. Apple also has its Boot Camp software, still in a beta testing version. Boot Camp allows Intel-based Macs to run either Windows or the Mac OS, but not both simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, Microsoft said it &#8220;has made the decision not to move forward with a Universal version of Virtual PC at this time. The software maker acquired the Virtual PC for the Mac line as part of its 2003 purchase of Connectix&#8217; Virtual PC and Virtual Server products. It still offers Windows virtualization products, though it has made the desktop version of Virtual PC for Windows a free download.<\/p>\n<p>Because of how closely virtualization software is tied to an operating system, Microsoft said that moving Virtual PC to the Intel-based Mac would be &#8220;similar to creating a version 1.0 release.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is putting a halt to a version of its Virtual PC software for Intel-based Macs. The move comes after start-up Parallels introduced its own virtualization software for running Windows on a Mac, and VMware said Monday it plans to provide a beta version of Mac virtualization software later this year. Apple also has its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applemcintosh","category-virtualization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}