{"id":27864,"date":"2012-08-24T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T09:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=27864"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:45:53","slug":"new-vmware-fusion-for-mountain-lion-and-w8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-vmware-fusion-for-mountain-lion-and-w8\/","title":{"rendered":"New VMWare Fusion for Mountain Lion and W8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27865 alignright\" title=\"vmware-fusion\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/08\/vmware-fusion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Using <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mountain-lion.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Mountain Lion<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-8-64bits.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Windows 8<\/strong><\/a> at the same time on your Mac has just got easier with the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/vmware-fusion.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>VMWare Fusion 5.0<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 apps now appear in the OS X Launchpad and you receive notifications from Mountain Lion\u2019s Notification Center in Windows 8. VMWare Fusion 5.0 has also been optimized for Retina displays, USB 3 connectivity although there&#8217;s no mention of Thunderbolt support.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are 70 new features and changes in total according to VMWare, including a significantly enhanced boot-up time of just eight seconds, enhanced battery management, and an enhanced user interface. 3D game rendering has also been improved, although it&#8217;s still unlikely it beats playing games using <strong>Bootcamp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27869\" title=\"VMWare Fusion 5.0\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/08\/VMWare-Fusion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/08\/VMWare-Fusion.jpg 580w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/08\/VMWare-Fusion-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VMware Fusion 5 costs $49.99 to upgrade but VMware Fusion 4 license holders are eligible for a free upgrade if they purchased VMware Fusion 4 on or after July 25.<\/p>\n<p>VMWare Fusion has certainly made progress in catching-up with Parallels in recent releases and many have grown tired with bugs in the latter and the update policy.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/vmware-fusion.en.softonic.com\/mac\">full review of VMWare Fusion 5.0 and download a free trial<\/a> and see if you think it&#8217;s a match for <a href=\"http:\/\/parallels-desktop-mac.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Parallels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Mountain Lion and Windows 8 at the same time on your Mac has just got easier with the release of VMWare Fusion 5.0. Windows 8 apps now appear in the OS X Launchpad and you receive notifications from Mountain Lion\u2019s Notification Center in Windows 8. VMWare Fusion 5.0 has also been optimized for Retina &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-vmware-fusion-for-mountain-lion-and-w8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New VMWare Fusion for Mountain Lion and W8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2911],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-27864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmountain-lion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333675,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864\/revisions\/333675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=27864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}