Thank you very much - worth waiting for!

Until Multiplicity supports MacOSX and Linux distributions, Synergy will always be the top choice for anyone who needs a virtual KVM. Mac support was "in development" over 4 years ago according to official forum posts by Stardock developers. Obviously, Stardock is not taking this product seriously and anyone who pays for the limited Windows use they get from Multiplicity is making a costly mistake. Go get Synergy. It works on Windows XP, Vista (32/64), 7 (32/64), MacOSX, and every distro of Linux. And it's free.

This seems to have fixed the previous 1.24 beta issues!  Well done.  8)

 

PS  Synergy hasn't been updated since 2006...that's even longer than ObjectDock2!  So, while it may be your only alternative for niche operating systems, I would still recommend Multiplicity for mainstream Windows users.

While I'd not comment about it quite as confrontationally as the second commenter, there's a good point buried in there.

Essentially, at the time of the inital release of Multiplicity, Stardock *had* indicated that support for other platforms would be forthcoming, but it appears that this goal has been abandoned. Since I don't think that the reason for this is that your programmers are incompetent (they clearly are not), it has to be caused by a 'Windows only' mindset that apparently pervades Stardock. This mindset works, and is understandable, for something like Object Desktop, since it is an enhancement to a Windows system, but Multiplicity begs for cross platform support (if you want it to be as useful as you purport it to be).

Some of us do use heterogenous systems (just as an example, I develop Windows and Unix/Linux applications, and typically have 3 or 4 systems across this spectrum working at any given time), and a program like Multiplicity essentially screams to be supported across different platforms. Multiplicity was the reason I initially subscribed to the Thinkdesk software, and the continued lack of support for any system other than windows was why I didn't renew that subscription.

I'd *like* to buy Multiplicity again, but I can't justify it if it's going to be restricted to Windows only.

It will work, after a fashion, to use both Multiplicity and Synergy, but there's no compelling reason to use both at the same time, and right now, only Synergy works with other OS's (and getting Synergy and Multiplicity to work together seamlessly is a bit 'interesting'). If I have to choose one over the other, I can't choose Multiplicity (despite its better features), because it just won't work for me.

I'm aware that cross platform isn't particularly easy, especially for something at that level of system interaction, but I also don't believe that you're not up to the task (if the volunteer programmers for Synergy can do it, I don't really see how it is beyond your abilities, either).