VMware Fusion is an absolute joy to work with on my MacBook Pro.
There is a new VMware Fusion update that has better support for the MacBook Air, Time Machine, as well as a number of bug fixes:
According to the release notes:
"VMware Fusion 1.1.2:
- Corrects a problem in which the remapping of keyboard shortcuts in Full Screen or Single Window view could not be disabled. Deselecting Enable Mac OS keyboard shortcuts now works as expected.
- Fixes a problem that could arise when the user attempted to run a virtual machine with the virtual CD drive connected but without a drive connected to the Mac. This problem was most likely to happen on a MacBook Air. The virtual machine no longer fails in this situation.
- Adds support for Windows XP SP3 when importing a Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine.
- Fixes a problem that prevented the user from being able to burn CDs with a USB Superdrive on the MacBook Air.
- Fixes a problem that caused VMware Fusion to fail when the user pressed some newly introduced keys on the new slim Apple keyboard, if the Enable debugging checks preference was set.
- Corrects a problem in which VMware Fusion occasionally would not return a USB device to Mac OS control when a virtual machine was shut down. VMware Fusion now makes sure to disconnect the device from the virtual machine, making it available to the Mac.
- Fixes a compatibility problem with wireless bridging and DHCP/routing behavior that could prevent a virtual machine from getting an IP address in certain cases.
- Corrects a sound problem in which only the default speaker worked in certain cases.
- In some cases, VMware Fusion, after being upgraded to Version 1.1.1, would fail with a Signal 10 error when the user tried to use the keyboard. This problem has been fixed.
- Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) no longer causes memory corruption. Version 1.1.2 contains a fix for the problem described in security advisory VMSA-2008-0005.html, section i.
- VMware Fusion 1.1.2 and Mac OS X Leopard Time Machine Issue Resolved."
Learn more here.
There is a great write-up on Mark Hamburg leaving Adobe and pursuing opportunities at Microsoft.
“Mark Hamburg, founder of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and former architect of Photoshop is leaving Adobe for a post at Microsoft. Mark, who was the second engineer hired to work on Photoshop after Thomas Knoll, has been at Adobe for over 17 years. He joined Adobe in the fall of 1990–the year Photoshop 1.0 shipped.“
What is interesting is that Mark will apparently be leading a team that will be working on the future of OS User Experience at Microsoft.
“Mark was invited by David Vaskevitch to come lead a team working on the future of OS User Experience at Microsoft. This is the way Mark phrased it: Now, given that I find the current Windows experience really annoying and yet I keep having to deal with it, this opportunity was a little too interesting to turn down. I can’t imagine doing serious imaging anywhere other than Adobe, but, I needed to do something other than imaging for a while.“
Check out the article and pictures on the PhotoshopNews.com - Mark Hamburg’s Going Away Party