Parallels Desktop users tend to the on the cutting edge of what is happening in both the Mac and the Windows worlds. Two proof points: by far, the most used Mac OS by Parallels Desktop 11 users is Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) (Figure 1), and the most used guest OS in Parallels Desktop […]
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Everyone cares and worries about the security of their computer nowadays—from the individual home user with a single Mac, to the IT Admin who has a whole department (or an entire company) full of Macs and PCs to worry about. In this post, I will show you in some detail the features of Parallels Desktop […]
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Microsoft Office remains the gold standard of productivity suites, but there are several different versions/editions of Office available for users of Apple hardware. Together with Parallels Desktop and Parallels Access, the Apple user can access just about any of these versions/editions on each of their hardware platforms. While Microsoft produces all of these suites and the […]
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Parallels received its first iPad Pro the other day, and I was able to use it for a few days. Man that screen is big! The first thing I did was to install Parallels Access (version 3.0.2) from the iTunes App Store, and check out how well it works. I tested Mac apps, Windows apps, the […]
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With a Windows 10 virtual machine and Parallels Desktop 11, you have access to Microsoft’s personal digital assistant, Cortana, at any time. Whether you’re using a Windows app like Internet Explorer or Edge, a Mac app like Keynote or Pages, or just the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer, Cortana is always there. With the addition […]
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I recently returned from trips to Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Taipei, and Berlin to demonstrate Parallels Desktop 11 to the press, to partners, and others. (Other Parallels colleagues travelled to many other locations including New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, London, Munich, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Seoul.) A worldwide, simultaneous launch of a new version of […]
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There are a number of features in the recently released Parallels Desktop Pro Edition that streamline the development and testing of websites and webpages. This short blog post examines several of these features in some detail. Testing in Multiple Browsers There are a lot of different browsers out there—some with multiple versions. NetMarketShare reports 11 different […]
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So, you’ve purchased and downloaded the installer for the brand new Parallels Desktop 11, and when you go to run the installer, you see this: So, what’s going on? Parallels Desktop 11 has different system requirements than previous versions of Parallels Desktop. In particular, Parallels Desktop 11 requires Mavericks, Yosemite, or El Capitan. It will […]
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Probably the most widely used developer tool is Visual Studio, and for that reason Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition includes some special integration with Visual Studio. In this blog post I will describe and demo this integration. When the Parallels Tools for Parallels Desktop Pro Edition are installed in Windows, a Visual Studio plug-in, […]
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A virtual machine (VM) is the ideal way to check out an OS that has been released as a beta, like Mac OS X 10.11, also known as El Capitan. A VM is a sandboxed environment, so any issues seen in the beta OS won’t affect any of your files on the Mac, destabilize your […]
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