Category Archives: run windows on mac

What to Pack to Tell the World about Parallels Desktop 11

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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How to Run Windows Notepad on Mac

Anybody who codes regularly or hates formatting discrepancies has a fondness for a good, basic text-editing program. Say what you like about these no-frills text editors, but they’re useful and easy to use. A perennial favorite amongst users: Windows Notepad. Notepad is a fan-favorite for a lot of reasons—for instance, its familiarity; its ability to […]

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How to Run Internet Explorer on Mac

Have you ever built a website or written some code and thought it looked perfect until, after the fact, you caught that same page looking horrible and wonky in another browser? I definitely have. And even though my version of writing code really means messing around in the WordPress back-end, the scenario still holds up. […]

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Coherence Mode: Aka, What is that Blue Button?

You may have noticed a new feature in screenshots of Parallels Desktop 11 and Parallels Desktop 11 Pro: that little blue button next to your close and minimize screen buttons? It’s our Coherence Mode button! (It turns out the Coherence Mode button doesn’t always have a bunch of yellow stars around it—but I am a […]

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How to Start Boot Camp Without Restarting Your Mac with Parallels Desktop 11

Guest blog by Dhruba Jyoti Das, Parallels Support Team One of my co-workers has previously written about the general procedure on how to set up a Windows virtual machine in Parallels Desktop based on your Boot Camp partition. But time flies fast, and Microsoft came up with Windows 10—not to mention, we recently released Parallels […]

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Mac Developer? Test Multiple Mac OSes in Parallels Desktop Pro

Tell me if this is an image you’ve resigned yourself to: multiple MacBook laptops scattered across your desk; some labeled with their OS, some not, a half-empty coffee cup a bit too close to all of your vital testing machines. First and foremost, go dump that day-old coffee. Second: Dude. Stop wasting desk space with […]

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Here’s Why You Should Upgrade to Parallels Desktop Pro Edition

With the arrival of Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac, we also brought something new to the table: Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition. Regarding this new edition, a lot of our customers have asked us the same question: why should I upgrade to Pro? We’re happy to shed a little light! Here are some of […]

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Guest Blog: Gilt’s Business Growth, Powered by the Right IT Tools

This is post was written by guest blogger Andrew Robinson, Senior IT Support Engineer at Gilt Groupe K.K. We are extremely excited and pleased to get to share his post as a special guest blog this week! Read on to learn about his experience choosing and using Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition. When I first joined […]

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How to (Easily) Get Microsoft Edge on Your Mac

Still trying to decide if you want to test out Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition? Well, here’s another reason to try it—we just added a pre-configured free trial of Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 to the New Virtual Machine Wizard! Here’s how to get Microsoft Edge on Mac, so you can start testing in Microsoft’s […]

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Installing El Capitan in Parallels Desktop 11

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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