DNS On Mac At Last Via Parallels/Windows XP!

Submitted by BruceCyr on Thu, 06/07/2007 - 20:15.

David Pogue reports on the Mac OS Extender Parallels 3.0:

"My contact at Parallels told me that he had heard from a number of customers who were successfully using NaturallySpeaking on their Macs -- in Windows XP. (Nuance, the company that makes Dragon NaturallySpeaking, doesn't officially support its use on Macs no matter how you're running Windows. It has, however, received many requests and is exploring the possibilities.)"

"Fortunately, the cool thing about Parallels is that you can create as many "virtual machines" as you want, each one running a different operating system on your Mac. (Web designers in particular enjoy this feature, because it lets them test a certain Web design in every conceivable browser and operating system.)"

"So off I went to create another virtual machine, this time one that ran Windows XP -- and presto! I had true-blue speech recognition running on my Mac, complete with the ability to copy and paste my transcribed utterances into my Mac e-mail program, word processor or whatever."

"Better yet, Windows XP doesn't bog down the rest of your Mac programs the way Windows Vista does. On a 2-gigabyte Mac like my MacBook, Parallels is much, much happier running XP than Vista."

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/technology/circuits.html

Depending on the accuracy of this report, my next PC could well be a Mac!

Bruce