Don’t upgrade CUZ Parallels 6 ain’t supported. Tried them both out, but since I’ve only been accessing my bootcamp partition while inside OSX, I went with Parallels. I purchased my MBP in April 2011 along with copies of Fusion 3 & Parallels 6. Why do you think XP is still being supported even though there have been 2 major releases (and now a preview for the next)?!?!?!?! You guys are SO FUNNY, it’s SAD! To blindly jump in head first with an OS upgrade before knowing the consequences…. Or Lotus, Ashton-Tate, Novell, or any of the many other companies that forgot that large companies start as small ones. I guess nobody learned anything from Microsoft. If we decide then to leave Parallels for whatever reason, and if I’m still here to have any say in the decision, then it would be to a competitor OTHER THAN VMware. When WE get to the point where we have a “relatively large Mac fleet”, we’ll be sure to remember how we got there. If we continue to be almost explicitly told that VMWare doesn’t want individual/small-company business, and if Parallels 7 runs our oddball Linuxes as well as VMWare 3.1 did, we’re going to switch, and tell our investors and partners (several of whom have relatively large Mac fleets) exactly why. We chose VMWare back in the 3.1 days when it appeared much more Linux-friendly than Parallels 6. I’m going to be proving that I can install 10.8 and then fall back to 10.7 or 10.6 via Time Machine and CarbonCop圜loner backups and then taking a good, hard look at our existing VMWare setup. We WILL be upgrading every Mac we have to Mountain Lion within the next few days it solves too many pain points for us to keep our mixture of Snow Leopard and Lion Macs. (I’ve seen half a dozen comparative reviews tonight that used words like “lazy”, “half-finished”, “absent-minded”, and in no case were they talking about VMWare’s competitors). Guys (and I mean all of you folk complaining about the update), remember: no matter how attractive Fusion is at first blush, it is NOT a core product for VMWare and they’ve simply lost interest in it. I’m the lead developer AND support guy in a small company getting out of the what-do-we-need-to-update-this-week? work-disruption sinkhole was a big part of the reason we left (native) Windows for Mac to begin with. (And by ‘short release cycles’, I mean anything under two years. Lots of anger certainly understandable to those who share it, or to those who develop products on short release cycles.

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