It’s Friday the 13th and it’s October. Halloween is coming and things are getting spooky. We have a Friday 13th Easter egg for you because we just love number 13 at Parallels. Hint: the about screen. Some of you have already noticed and commented on it. If you’re a @ParallelsMac 13 user, there’s an amusing […]
You may remember that the Blizzard game Overwatch—the 2016 IGN Game of the Year—was an example of a recent game that was not available to Mac users. Fortunately, it played very well in Parallels Desktop® 12 for Mac. That was the status a year ago. But a lot has happened since then. Overwatch has become […]
High Sierra is finally available! If you are reading this post, then you probably want to know if Parallels Desktop® 13 for Mac supports macOS® High Sierra. The quick answer is yes! Parallels Desktop 13 fully supports macOS High Sierra, both as a host OS and guest OS. The more detailed answer is in the […]
High Sierra is finally available! If you are reading this post, then you probably want to know if Parallels Desktop® 13 for Mac supports macOS® High Sierra. The quick answer is yes! Parallels Desktop 13 fully supports macOS High Sierra, both as a host OS and guest OS. The more detailed answer is in the […]
Our team of engineers has been hard at work after we released Parallels Desktop® 13 for Mac! Hundreds of development hours go into ensuring Parallels Desktop users are the center of everything we do. We’d like to wholeheartedly thank the users who provided such wonderful product feedback. Combining the valuable user feedback and engineering Q&A, […]
My colleague, Alex Sursiakov, wrote an excellent blog post on the Touch Bar™. In his post, Advanced Touch Bar Customization with Parallels Desktop, Alex detailed an advanced way to implement Touch Bar button sets, which gives the user many additional design options that are not available using the Touch Bar customization features built into Parallels […]
For many years, Parallels Desktop® for Mac has made Windows even more usable for Mac users by bringing cool Mac features over to Windows. Some notable examples have been Mac gesture support in Windows applications (in Parallels Desktop 7) and Retina™ display support for Windows (in Parallels Desktop 8). In 2015, for the first time […]
In an earlier blog post, I described how to use the Touch Bar with Windows applications. In this follow-up blog post, I will show you how to customize the Touch Bar™ buttons for almost any Windows application—and also describe how the Parallels engineers made the Touch Bar work with Windows. If you haven’t already read that […]
Parallels Program Manager guest author: Alex Sursiakov Apple® is constantly improving their operating systems—including security improvements so you, the Apple user, can be safe. Sometimes security improvements are under the hood and don’t bother you. Sometimes they require your attention and for you to make a decision. Here I will talk about the second type. Starting with macOS® High Sierra, Apple warns you […]
Parallels Program Manager guest author: Alex Sursiakov Apple® is constantly improving their operating systems—including security improvements so you, the Apple user, can be safe. Sometimes security improvements are under the hood and don’t bother you. Sometimes they require your attention and for you to make a decision. Here I will talk about the second type. Starting with macOS® High Sierra, Apple warns you […]