

Instead, you get people sitting back and saying “Windows on Mac? Ew!” because they haven’t really had the opportunity to learn any better. And unlike VMware Fusion, which has a fully-functional 30-day trial for anyone to play with, Microsoft doesn’t typically provide trial access to operating systems in a way conducive to playing around in a VMware virtual machine-like an OS disk image, for example.Īs such, a lot of Mac users who aren’t recent switchers, haven’t taken the opportunity to play around with the idea of Windows on the Mac, and as a result haven’t seen how fast, stable, and easy it can be.

One of the costs associated with running Windows on the Mac is the cost of Windows. Anyone can go and download the Windows 7 bits, and get a beta serial key that’s good through July 1st, 2009. Git yer free trial Windows! Six months to see what you think of Windows on Mac!Īnother cool thing about the Windows 7 Beta, is that it’s free to use for anyone.
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So we wanted to take the time to share best practices on how to make this happen, with screenshots and video of the process to make it nice and easy for you.

Well guess what: this is certainly the case with Windows 7 and VMware Fusion, too. There’s been a lot of buzz flying around about Microsoft’s next big operating system, Windows 7, which just entered public beta.Īs our readers know, a great way to start testing out a new operating system is in a virtual machine, where you can see how it works without having to dedicate a whole physical machine.
