Is there anything actually worth upgrading for in VMware WS 11?
I see "new operating system support", but I've no idea what that actually means as I've run those OSes in WS 10 just fine. Except for Windows 10, which has terrible graphics performance, and still does on WS 11.
There's some mention of Haswell support but no details as to what it actually is. Probably just AVX support? They updated some drivers, too? "Updated NDIS drive" I assume is a typo.
Hilariously, they go on to say that 3D support won't work with WS 11 if you use a Linux not on their list, or if you *use Microsoft Office*. And USB headsets won't work.
Then they list a few other bugfixes which ... should just be fixed instead of requiring a new version. (WS 10 would crash about once a day with Windows guests, maybe that'll go away but I'm not hopeful.)
I'm feeling really disappointed. I don't see anything noteworthy.It *feels* like, since Workstation is essentially the only high-grade product for end-user virtualization on Windows, they're just sitting around. And of course, they're terrified by Hyper-V on the ESXi side (the enterprise blogs are vicious; it's sorta funny how fierce both sides got. I especially loved how VMware kept retreating to pointing out whatever esoteric feature HV was missing, and MS just closed that gap bit by bit).
But WS doesn't really fit into VMware's model, does it? So they get a $150 from a few end users... big deal? Does WS revenue even make a rounding error in their financials?
Am I missing something here?
