Apple® announced the next version of the macOS®, High Sierra, on the first day of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2017. They made a beta version available later that day to developers. While beta releases of operating systems are not officially supported by Parallels Desktop® 12 for Mac, they will often more or less work. I […]
We have just released an update to Parallels® Toolbox for Mac®, with four additional tools and several new features requested by users. New Tools The four new tools are shown in Figure 1. They are: Download Audio – Similar to the Download Video tool but targeted toward downloading audio from the Internet, including multiple track […]
We have just released an update to Parallels® Toolbox for Mac®, with four additional tools and several new features requested by users. New Tools The four new tools are shown in Figure 1. They are: Download Audio – Similar to the Download Video tool but targeted toward downloading audio from the Internet, including multiple track […]
Problem: You need to open an .exe file but you have a Mac®. Solution: You can easily open an .exe from your Mac by using Parallels Desktop® for Mac. I frequently get questions like this from Mac users: My brother sent me a file named “naib.exe”, but I can’t open it on my Mac. How […]
Microsoft® Office for Windows® is the gold standard for a productivity suite, and the spreadsheet in that suite, Excel, is the gold standard of spreadsheet applications. So, it is not surprising that many Parallels Desktop users turn to Excel® for their spreadsheet needs, and getting the best performance out of Excel is important to them. […]
In its day, Windows® XP was a great operating system. I ran it for many years on my main work computer. It was considerably better than some of its successors: even though I worked at Microsoft® when Windows Vista was released, I never moved to Vista. And don’t even get me started on the debacle […]
We all have those little, conceptually easy tasks that we need to perform regularly, but in reality they can be tricky to get right each time we need to do them. For me, one of those tasks is saving a Facebook® or YouTube™ video for later offline viewing. Conceptually easy—check. Actually doing it—rather tricky, and […]
Experienced web developers test their websites on lots of browsers before the sites are deployed. Unfortunately, this can be a real hassle. Some browsers run only on a few operating systems. There is no recent version of Safari, for example, that runs on Windows. Edge, the new browser from Microsoft, runs only on Windows 10 […]
For months now, Microsoft has been telling everyone about the pending update to Windows 10: the Creators Update. The release date has now been set, and it is April 11. If you wish to install the Windows 10 Creators Update in a brand new VM, you can do so now: an Installation ISO was […]
At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Parallels announced that Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) supports Microsoft Azure. This blog post will show you this new support and what it now enables end users to do in Parallels RAS. A future post will discuss in some detail how IT admins configure Parallels RAS (and […]