Ok, wow.  I’ve just finished a headspinning phonecall with Ben Rudolph from Parallels (aka SWsoft).

The guys over at Paralles are working really hard on porting their sexy features Coherence and SmartSelect over from the Mac to ”Parallels Workstation for Windows“. 

For those who haven’t been following Parallels, they do some really innovative stuff, and are continually pushing the envelope.

Coherence is the ability to hide the OS within a VM, and display only the application - and make it behave like any other application on the host, check out the Coherence clip on YouTube.

Smartselect is the ability to just “load the file”, regardless of if the file needs an application within a VM, check out the SmartSelect click on YouTube.

…or for something a bit more upbeat, check em both out with music.

Anyway, this is very exciting and welcomed news.  Business will be able to deploy any Application [and combining OS in a virtual machine], in a format that end users can “just use like other apps“.   …and with USB passthough you can still use  all those crappy legacy 32bit XP peripherals on 64 bit Vista.

Bring it on Boys, I can’t wait.