VMWare, the company noted for its virtualization products has released VMWare Workstation 6 Beta. In this release, there is support for Windows Vista as a host operating system as well as now for Linux users, 64 bit host support for even better performance.
As of right now, it seems that the Windows client is still supports 32 bit mode and currently do not know if this product will run on Windows Vista 64 bit.
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Homepage: VMWare Beta
Popular music and video player WinAmp has been updated. Many changes have occurred
since the previous version.
As expected there is a full version which includes many addon features that might appeal to media junkies and a lite version which has less features and uses less space.
A list of changes can be found in the following forum post and also provided are downlod links to the latest version.
Parallels workstation, a desktop program that allows users of Windows and Linux to run other operating systems at the same time as been updated.
Parallels, can have various guest operating systems whether it be DOS, Windows or other versions of Linux at the same time without having to dual boot or partition your hard drive to use other operating systems.
This version also improves the performance of Vista as a guest OS up to 200% and also you are now able to run Parallels on a computer running Windows Vista as a host operating system.
The trial version of Parallels is valid for 15 days and is available for users of Windows and Linux.
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Product Information: View press release
Download: Visit download page
Popular firewall program, Zone Alarm has recently released a beta
version of their next security suite in Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite 7.0.
Kaspersky, has been awarded with being a top quality product finding a lot and sucessfully removing viruses, spyware and other malware. Version 6.0 of the Security suite has been ranked 6th best in PC World security tests.
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Visit: ZoneAlarm Internet Security Beta Page
Download: ZIS 7.0 Beta