Linked List: August 26, 2011

Friday, 26 August 2011

VMware’s Back to School Special 

My thanks to VMware for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote their VMware in Education back-to-school special. Any university or college student, prospective student, parent, or member of the faculty can receive a discount of up to 50 percent on VMware products. Visit the VMware website to learn more about the promotion.

VMware Fusion is a terrific solution for running Windows on the Mac. Unlike Boot Camp, with VMware Fusion, Windows apps can run alongside Mac apps. It works with over 150 different Intel-compatible operating systems.

In It for the Long Haul 

Apple, in its SEC filing detailing this week’s changes in corporate leadership:

In connection with Mr. Cook’s appointment as Chief Executive Officer, the Board awarded Mr. Cook 1,000,000 restricted stock units. Fifty percent of the restricted stock units are scheduled to vest on each of August 24, 2016 and August 24, 2021, subject to Mr. Cook’s continued employment with Apple through each such date.

The message: Apple’s board is confident in Tim Cook, and Tim Cook is confident in Apple.

Apple Removes TV Rentals From iTunes 

“iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows.”

Dave Winer on Steve Jobs 

Dave Winer:

One of the really amazing things about New York City is the extent to which the city anticipated its own growth. It built elevated rail systems to neighborhoods that didn’t exist. A grid that went into the Bronx when the city barely made it to 14th St. A huge city park in the middle of nowhere. Tech guys have to think like that. So few do.

Rob ‘CmdrTaco’ Malda Resigns From Slashdot 

Founder of one of the seminal indie web publications.