It's called Virtual PC and, last month, the company announced it had released a new version of the program.
Both the VMWare Server and Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 are ideal for installing virtual machines on an Intel- or AMD-based PC.
Of course if Windows isn't your cup of tea, then you can also install Microsoft's DOS on your Mac using Virtual PC.
Install Virtual PC on a Mac running either Mac OS9 or Mac OS X and, odd as this may seem, you can then actually run Windows on that Mac.
Microsoft made such a call earlier this year, after researchers at Core Security informed the company that they had found a vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual PC software.
This problem was especially thorny for Microsoft because Virtual PC allows Windows 7 users to run applications designed for older Windows versions in a virtualized environment on their Windows 7 machines.
And if you're among those who have to run a few Windows-only applications at home--where you're a dedicated Mac-lover--in many cases Virtual PC offers a way to keep your feet in two computing worlds.
But with the exception of games, which Virtual PC doesn't support because it isn't designed to handle the complex graphics and sounds that PC games require, many Windows-based applications can run on Virtual PC without any trouble.
The difference in this case, experts say, is that the Virtual PC vulnerability is the symptom of a larger problem lurking beneath the surface: assuming that protections such as ASLR, DEP and SafeSEH will always be around to save us.
The flaw, which affected the virtual machine monitor (VMM) in Virtual PC, could enable an attacker to use applications running in user-space on a guest OS to access portions of the Virtual PC memory that should be inaccessible to those applications.
Once you've installed these "virtual" machines on your Mac, you can for the most part install PC applications on the virtual machine as though it were a real PC--though few software vendors will actually help you out running their software in an emulated environment.
In a separate announcement, the company also introduced a new mobile app that enables users to use their smartphones to convert their PC into a real-life Virtual Reality environment.
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Now that it seems like the server issues are finally fixed with SimCity, PC gamers can finally build their own virtual metropolises without any issues.
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Because the game was designed to be an always-online experience, even for single player, the millions of PC gamers who want to build their virtual metropolises need to log on to play.
But before my neighbors and my wife call their respective lawyers, I should point out that the situation I'm describing is a slice of virtual life from the world's No. 1 PC game, The Sims, by virtuoso designer Will Wright.
Put a Cius into its dock with a landline handset connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and it could load your virtual Mac or Windows desktop and act just like a traditional PC as well as a desk phone.
That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
The virtual cards game, which will be entering beta testing soon, will be available on PC, Mac and iPad tablets.
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In South Korea's omnipresent "PC bangs" ( bang means room in Korean), millions lose themselves in virtual worlds day after day.
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