Guest blog by Manoj Kumar Suresh, Parallels Support Team Windows 10 is here! It’s officially been released and it’s already much better than Windows 8, period. (Right?!) Even better, Windows 10 is a free upgrade for most Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users, so it’s not surprising that many Windows users are upgrading—including users on […]
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Guest blog by Dishant Tripathi, Parallels Support Team If you didn’t know already, Parallels runs 24/7 customer support globally. We talk to our customers via phone, chat, emails and our social media channels, all day, every day. On one of these days, after a night shift answering customer questions, I scored a successful power nap […]
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Guest blog by Manoj Raghu, Parallels Support Team We’ve all been there. (Or we all hope we’ll be there!) You just opened a shiny new Mac with pristine Mac OS X and blank settings. Yes, Apple has its own migration assistant, but according to my experience, many customers prefer to start fresh. Wait—does that mean […]
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Have you found yourself on a mobile data plan where you’re down to the wire, straining to connect to the next door Starbucks Wi-Fi the last few days of each month? Buckle up—there’s one addition to iOS 9 that might suck up even more of your data. Wi-Fi Assist seems like a great idea, but […]
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Guest blog by Maria Golubeva, Parallels Support Team Some people are tech-savvy, and some aren’t. Once new software is installed on a Mac, some folks just start using it with the default settings, but others (and I’d say I’m one of them) optimize it by changing various settings. Sometimes I just add more RAM and […]
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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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By Paul Christopher Nathaniel, Parallels Support Team As much as we like our iPads, we realize that many people who own Macs may also opt for an Android or Windows tablet instead. For iPhone, iPad, and iPod, you can sync/transfer photos to your computer using iTunes. But that same process is a little different for Android—let’s […]
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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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It’s undeniable: working remotely is the way of the future. More and more companies are investing in employees that don’t work the typical 9 to 5 because it actually raises productivity while providing flexibility to employees. On top of that, increasingly sophisticated tools are emerging for the remote worker—including Parallels Access, of course! Despite the […]
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We’ve completely revamped our Parallels Cloud Service Provider blog and moved it to a new URL: spblog.parallels.com. If you happen to find yourself reading this post, we invite you to join us at our new address!