August 6, 2002

I've been pining for "virtual desktop" functionality in a Windows environment lately. Cool Desk looks like a decent option, though I'm not sure I want it badly enough to pay $25 for it. My other option is to just do more work in Linux, which makes much more sense since I'm mostly doing Linux development anyway.

I'm amused by VirtualDesktop.info, which attempts to appear like a third-party review of virtual desktop utilities for Windows. An entire domain with no apparent company/group affiliation dedicated to a side-by-side comparison of seven utilities in an extremely narrow market? And Cool Desk is the winner, hands down? Of course it's owned by ShellToys Inc., makers of Cool Desk. (There's nothing horribly wrong with this, at least not when the stakes are so low, I'm just amused.)

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You want ControlCenter, part of ObjectDesktop (and also available separately), from Stardock.



http://www.stardock.com/



I've been using it since 1995 or 1996, originally on OS/2, and later on NT4 and W2K when they ported it there.



It is definitely the best virtual desktop software available. I wish they'd port to OSX.