VMware heeft aangekondigd dat het een deal met Microsoft heeft gesloten waardoor VMware klanten binnenkort de mogelijkheid krijgen om VMware Ready to Run naar keuze met Win98, NT of 2000 gebundeld te krijgen:
VMware, Inc., the company that is changing the one OS, one machine PC computing model, today announced an OEM agreement with Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) to distribute Microsoft Windows® 98, Windows NT®, and Windows® 2000 with VMware software. Later this year, VMware will add VMware Ready to Run to its list of product offerings.[...] VMware 2.0 features a graphical user interface that allows users to flip between applications or operating systems running in virtual machines with a single keystroke. The software runs as an application on top of an existing OS, and supports full virtual machine networking, sound, multimedia, and suspend/resume functionality.
Under the OEM agreement with Microsoft, VMware customers will have the option to buy VMware Ready to Run with their choice of Windows 98, Windows NT, or Windows 2000 preinstalled in a VMware virtual machine.