VMware launches Fusion 5

I'm a bit annoyed, I just paid $50 to upgrade to the Lion version last year, plus $50 for Fusion 3 upgrade the year before that, and now I have to pay again?<p>My single Fusion license has cost me $150 over the last 3 years! Thanks a lot VMware!

just bought 4 last month (used virtualbox for a lot of stuff, but had some proprietary vmware machines that were a real pain to try to run in vbox). $49 for purchase of vmware fusion 4. Fine. But now... I can <i>upgrade</i> to fusion 5 for $49... or just buy fusion 5 for... $49. Annoying. Yes, it's all in my head, but an upgrade price the same as a 'regular' price leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Have they added the ability to prevent that darn menu helper thing from loading in the menu bar? That's all I really want in an upgrade.

The VMWare store still shows version 4...<p>But if I'm reading this correctly, they added back in an upgrade discount, which I think was missing with the 4 release.<p>Edit: here's the proper link <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html</a>

Is it just me or is the VMware Store completely broken? I click on any of the Buy links and I just get redirected in a circle back to the front page of the store!?<p>I'm in New Zealand BTW. Perhaps they have some problems with non-US IP addresses...?

Looks like Workstation's been bumped up a version number as well, now standing at version 9:<p><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html</a>

I bought the upgrade to Fusion 4 July 26th, and they said I was eligible for a free upgrade to Fusion 5, but their website is such a royal mess that I can't seem to understand how to upgrade.

Can you buy a legal copy of the Mac OS to run on a VM without buying any Mac hardware?