17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
10:47 a.m.
On 2/17/2010 11:55 AM, John Foust wrote:
For the Windows-based emulators, I suspect we'll soon have a file format
that bundles all of an application and its data into a redistributable
single-file format. You can see glimpses of this already in the
enterprise tools that let you run an app this way, without actually
installing it into your registry and hard drive. Maybe it'll be a
way from all this Windows ugliness.
This is my primary reason for using VMWare. My personal laptop is a
workhorse and I can ill afford to be without it. When I am suspicious
of an application (not just for uncertainty on intention, but some older
apps for design work are bad WIndows apps), I'll load it into a VM. If
it works but trashes the OS, I'm not out a lot.
Jim