Switching to a Mac, Part 3.5: Parallels Update
Last night I needed to work on a web site that I’ve been required to put into Sharepoint. Those of you who have worked with Sharepoint know that you need to use IE for it to work well. I realized that because I was only updated to Windows SP2 on my Mac, I couldn’t use IE 7 (or preferably 8). What can I say? I’m spoiled by tabbed browsing in Safari and Firefox.
I took a deep breath and downloaded – directly to the Mac, not Windows – SP3 from Microsoft. Then I installed it. What amazed me was that it installed easily! Once that was installed, I restarted the virtual machine and installed IE 8 Beta.
Everything works fine. I worked easily on the Sharepoint site all last night and a bit of today without any performance issues. As far as I can tell, installing SP2 was the main issue in my previous fight with Parallels. I highly recommend, if you’re installing a Windows XP virtual machine, that you install a more recent version of XP – perhaps with SP2 already integrated.
Cheers!
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Jeffrey Henderson
July 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm #
Um, why go Mac when you can just install Ubunut and run XP and OSX in a virtual machine?