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Two makers of virtualisation software for running the Windows operating system on Apple’s computers have issued dueling upgrades this week.

VMware said on Friday that a second beta version of its VMware for Macs software, named Fusion, is available now as a free download and that the finished product is scheduled for general availability in June or July. The first beta version of the software was introduced in December 2006.

Rival Parallels unveiled an update to its Desktop for Macs software late last month.

Both use virtualisation to run Microsoft’s Windows on an Apple computer and make it possible for the user to switch from Mac to Windows without having to reboot.

Among the improvements in VMware’s Fusion is its ability to run Windows-designed 3-D gaming software on a Mac, said Dan Chu, VMware’s vice president of emerging products and markets.

“There’s been a ton of traffic about this on the blogs,” said Chu, about discussions by end users anticipating the beta 2 release.

Excellent, this will bring some added functionality to the mac platform over the current virtual pc from Microsoft. Which virtualization product you choose will be up to you, it will be interesting to see if this encourages more ‘switching’ to the mac platform, vmware fusion though with it’s gaming support, does provide me with the ever important transport tycoon option. Very cool.

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