Goodbye to VirtueDesktops

It's always sad when a great piece of software reaches the end of its life. Tony Arnold has announced that he is ceasing development of VirtueDesktops. This is a real shame, as VirtueDesktops is one of my favorite free Mac OS X applications.

For those who aren't familiar, VirtueDesktops allows you to have multiple virtual desktops in Mac OS X like the various Unix window environments offer. It's a huge benefit for anyone doing development work; all the Mac users at my office all use it.

The main reason, he says, is that the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" has a virtual desktop capability, called Spaces, built right in. I only hope that Spaces has as strong of a feature set as VirtueDesktops.

I can totally understand Tony's reasoning here. I myself have abandoned a software project, although it wasn't nearly as popular as VirtueDesktops, when Microsoft aquired Sysinternals and guaranteed that my humble Windows Process Tools would never measure up to what is now a Microsoft tool, Sysinternals PsTools. Of course, this message post should have told me that this was coming.

Anyway, I'm rambling off point. My failed projects are a whole different subject. Best of luck to Tony in his future projects, and thanks for a great piece of software!