Among my many character flaws, I am an unapologetic font addict. One of my favorite T-shirts reads: Whoever dies with the most fonts, wins. Figure 1 shows my font menu in Microsoft Word on my home iMac®, so you can see that I’m well on my way to winning. Because of this addiction, I was […]
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Globally, there are millions of users who are required to use Microsoft Internet Explorer for banking, human resources, tax systems, and many other corporate intranets. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and even Microsoft Edge are free browsers that are more stable and secure than IE. However, Internet Explorer is still the second most popular web […]
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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 […]
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Sometimes you encounter a website that requires Internet Explorer (IE), as in Figure 1. This blog post will compare opening IE for such a website on your Mac using Parallels Desktop 12, and using Boot Camp. Both alternatives here use a 2012 MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra (10.12.1) and Windows 10. Bottom Line: While the […]
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A question that I am regularly asked is: “Will an old Photoshop Version for Windows work in Parallels Desktop on the Mac?” (with the named app being almost any type of app: line-of-business app, educational app, productivity app, or game, among many other categories). My standard response is: “It is highly likely that this app for […]
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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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Which web browser you use depends on more than just personal preference—for instance, you can obviously only use Apple’s Safari on a Mac. Thankfully, with Parallels Desktop 10, you can use pretty much whichever web browser you’ve got your heart set on. In fact, you can even use multiple browsers at once! (This is especially […]
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