I finally allowed the automatic upgrade to IE7 in my Parallels installation of Windows XP. Up to this point I had been testing my site in IE6 using Parallels and then booting (via Boot Camp) into Windows XP to test it in IE7. Thankfully there is an easier way. Much easier.
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PCWorld says Windows Vista is incomplete; expensive; wants a new PC; is time-consuming; doesn't obsolete Windows XP; and may be the best reason to buy a Mac.
First impressions count. They can leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling created out of the hope and ripples of excitement a product generates... or, they can leave you feeling like you feel having installed the public beta of Microsoft Windows Vista. I like to know what all the fuss is about plus I wanted to debug my site for IE7 (err, I mean bypass the bugs in IE7 to work with my site): two good reasons to download and install the beta of Microsoft's finest OS. Aside from the undeniable "God is it slow or what?", the other in-your-face personal observation has to be "I've seen this before—in Mac OS X Tiger!".
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Windows Vista Beta 2 is available as a DVD-sized public download. Unfortunately it doesn't (yet) work with Parallels virtualization software on Intel Macs.
How do you make a computer nerd happy? Give him three (or more) operating systems to play with at once on the same machine. But seriously, virtualization software is a real boon for web developers with an interest in cross-platform testing their designs.
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With the release of Boot Camp Apple have openly facilitated users running Windows XP on their Intel Macs if they need do. This is a good thing for everybody. Apple gives "switchers" a reason to choose Macs without betting the farm. Microsoft gets to sell copies of Windows to Mac users. Mac fans get to work in OS X and boot into Windows when they must (e.g. I occasionally need to run Access, install PC-only software for hardware configuration, test how my website looks using Internet Explorer, etc.)
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