Microsoft this week announced that its Mac development division has stopped developing and has stopped shipping VirtualPC for Mac. Microsoft said that it will not update VirtualPC to run natively on Intel-based Macs. The reason being is that Windows XP now runs natively on Intel-Macs, and DailyTech thinks that Microsoft doesn't want to advocate the use of other operating systems within VirtualPC. The original intent of VirtualPC for Mac was to allow Mac users to run Windows XP so they could have access to Windows applications. This is of course, no longer required.

Earlier this week, VMware made the announcement that it will begin developing its virtualization suit for the Mac platform. The company said that Apple's market share is significantly growing and it sees a good potential in the enterprise space. VMware also made headlines earlier last month when it announced that its enterprise level virtualization suite would be available free of charge.

Parallels this week made the announcement that it is working on making 3D acceleration available in its Parallels Desktop for Mac. Currently, most virtualization products don't offer any video acceleration simply because the market is not there. Parallels changed all this with its introduction of virtualization for Intel-based Macs earlier this year. Utilizing VT technology in Core Duo processors, guest operating systems were running nearly as fast as their native counterparts.