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So, what do you do at VMware?

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 22, 2007

Oh, UI stuff…

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Why’s there a little person in my button?

18 Comments Posted by on June 25, 2007

I was walking around the new VMware Promontory campus today and found this button. I’m tempted to press it, but I’m not sure what it will do. Send little stick figures to attack me? Stick me in a little house? Any ideas? Update: My apologies to anyone who couldn’t comment. My cache plugin cached the [...]

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Unity is now “real” – VMware Fusion Beta 4 released

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 7, 2007

Yesterday I briefly wrote about the new feature in VMware Fusion called Unity and linked to a video demonstrating what it can do. The buzz we got from that has been a lot of fun. Some people commented on various sites saying it was fake, even, which I found pretty funny having watched this thing [...]

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Unity

7 Comments Posted by on June 6, 2007

I remember the day I interviewed at VMware. I was asked what I would do to improve Workstation, and one of the things I said was that it would be nice to make a VM go rootless. That is, pull application windows out of the VM and make them integrate well with the operating system. [...]

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Review Board

38 Comments Posted by on May 17, 2007

Reviewing code can suck The open source world has given developers great tools to make their lives easier. We have editors, bug trackers, source code management tools, repository viewers. Bugzilla, for example, is a very popular bug tracker used by many open source projects and companies alike. While the life of a developer has in [...]

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May I present VMware Workstation 6.0

14 Comments Posted by on May 10, 2007

Good news, everyone! After several months of hard work, many late nights, and thousands of caffeinated beverages, we have finally released VMware Workstation 6.0. You may have already heard this on the news, but I’m here to tell you exactly what we spent so much time on. Or a glimpse of it, anyway. Windows Vista [...]

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VMware Workstation 6 RC2

7 Comments Posted by on April 24, 2007

Release! Well I dropped the ball on this one, but we released VMware Workstation 6.0 RC2 last week. This is our second release candidate, and for those using our betas in the past, you should know that that means a final release isn’t too far away! Not much has really changed in RC2, aside from [...]

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VMware Tango Icons ♥ Creative Commons

5 Comments Posted by on March 9, 2007

The VMware Workstation 6 betas have been out for a while now, so I’m sure those using it have noticed that we’ve been trying to make our icon theme fit in with the Tango icon style (well, to the best of my current abilities). So far this has proven to be a dramatic improvement over [...]

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VMware Workstation 6.0 beta 3

4 Comments Posted by on February 12, 2007

We’ve just put out VMware Workstation 6.0 beta 3. As per the ancient traditions set forth by the VMware founders, we decided to make this release awesome. I’ll go over a couple of my favorite, but for the rest, read the release notes. Record/Replay Workstation 6 beta 3 is the first release to support our [...]

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VMware IPO news, and 3D in VMware demoed

7 Comments Posted by on February 7, 2007

VMware IPO Wow, exciting day for VMware. For those who haven’t yet seen the news, our parent company, EMC, announced a VMware IPO. Approximately 10% of VMware is being sold. This is all news to me too, but it’s damn exciting. “VMware is one of the fastest-growing businesses in the history of the software industry. [...]

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