I updated Cygwin and ActiveState's Perl Development Kit and Komodo, which I use occasionally they work fine, but are still too slow to be bearable for everyday use, but I would not want to use Windows for everyday use, so it's all good. They downloaded and installed much more quickly, though I still prefer to download via Mac OS X and drag the files over to Windows. I was overdue on some updates, so I ran the Windows Update app. Viewing multimedia is nicer, opening apps is quicker, moving around the filesystem is zippier (I am running out of adjectives here, bear with me). The first thing I did was upgrade from version 5, and just play around. Virtual PC has always been helpful to me for these purposes in the past, though it's been slow. And every once in awhile, there is some software I need that is Windows-only.Īll of these needs are rare, but when I need them, I need them. Further, I am a Slash developer, and sometimes our users complain about certain bugs that only show up on certain browsers, so I want to test that on Windows too.

I am a perl developer I work on perl and release perl software. And I don't want to ruin it by running Windows on my Mac unless I have a need to. Now - and this is the honest-to-goodness truth - I have not seen an actual computer (only images on TV or in magazines) running native Windows in months.

With version 6, the focus is on better performance and Mac integration. With version 5, the main feature was Mac OS X compatibility. Connectix recently released version 6 of Virtual PC, the standard for emulating Windows on a Mac.

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