Are you an avid Mac user looking to run Windows on your Mac computer? If so, VMware is conducting a usability study for its new Mac offering, VMware Fusion, and would like your opinion!

The purpose of the study is to understand your needs for running Windows on the Mac and learn how you interact with Fusion so that we can improve the product to meet your needs. We’re looking for Mac users at all levels, especially those who have limited or no experience with virtualization products.

These studies will take place at our VMware offices in Palo Alto from February 20th – Mar. 2nd. We are looking for people in the San Francisco/Bay Area willing to travel to our Palo Alto offices during these dates. During the session we will ask you to perform a number of tasks and to answer questions about your experience performing these tasks. The session is expected to last no more than 90 minutes. In appreciation of your time, we would like to offer $100 in American Express gift cards, or a VMware Fusion license.

This is your opportunity to provide feedback and influence the design of VMware products. Please answer the following questions below, and we will contact you if your profile matches our testing needs. If you know of others who may be interested in participating in this study, please help us spread the word by passing this survey on to them.

Please send your responses to user-study-100@vmware.com.

Questions:

Do you use a Mac as your primary computer?

What version of Mac OS X are you using?

How long have you been a Mac user?

Are you familiar with installing software on a Mac computer?

On a scale of 1-5, how familiar are you with Windows and working with Windows applications? (1 – never used Windows, 5- Windows power user)

Did you switch from Windows to Mac?

Do you have a pressing need to run Windows on your Mac? Why/What applications do you need to use?

Have you used any VMware or any other virtualization products in the past?

How familiar are you with these products?

Have you used the Fusion beta?

Have you heard of/used Parallels?

Do you use Apple’s Bootcamp on your Mac?

Contact and background information: Name:

Job title:

Phone number:

Please send this survey back to user-study-100@vmware.com and we will contact you shortly if you qualify for our study. Thank you very much for your time!