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Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is here. Run Windows on Mac without rebooting.

11 Comments

1. 

   Laughing Guest

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 5:08 pm · Reply

   Experimental support for release preview. Sounds like a must-have.
2. 

   Cubert

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 5:30 pm · Reply

   “while protecting their Mac from any bugs that can occur with non-final versions of software”

   Or every version of Windows.
   • 

     ken1w

     Monday, June 4, 2012 - 6:16 pm · Reply

     Exactly…!
3. 

   Fran

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 6:03 pm · Reply

   I use McAfee on my windows side in parallels.
4. 

   mredofcourse

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 6:07 pm · Reply

   I wish Parallels was in the App Store!
   • 

     Alan

     Monday, June 4, 2012 - 8:17 pm · Reply

     Can’t. Violates the sandbox rules required for App Store inclusion. Of course, it has to in order to operate so who cares.
5. 

   gmsquires

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 6:33 pm · Reply

   Actually Parallels has been able to support Windows 8 preview for about a couple of months now. The latest update to Wondows 8 does improve on it’s working and use of the Magic Trackpad is supported. Win 8 is faster, although not loaded down with a bunch of software yet, and it is interesting. I tend to concur though with MacWorld’s review and nother reviewer that although interesting trying to merge both a desk top PC operating system and a tablet is going to have issues. People will be confused going back and forth from the Win 7 or system desktop and Metro. Settings are a disaster and spread out over several screens or areas. Gahhh!
6. 

   TheConfuzed1

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 7:54 pm · Reply

   Aside from the crap that is Windows, does this update do anything for users who don’t necessarily care about Windows itself?

   What I mean to say is this… I bought Parallels when I got my MacBook Pro in January, with Windows 7 Prodessional, and aside from checking that it works, and showing people that a Mac can run Windows, I haven’t launched it. Not once.

   So basically, I don’t care about having the latest version of Windows, but will this make Parallels run better with the version of Windows that I have?

   Who knows… I may launch it one day! LMAO!!!
7. 

   Alan

   Monday, June 4, 2012 - 8:15 pm · Reply

   Yea. They changed the link in the Parallels main screen. Otherwise Parallels 7 could always run Windows 8 Pre-release.

   (If you don’t have Parallels, their home screen has several choices, one of which is to install Windows 8 Preview Release. Previously it was Windows 8 Consumer Release so no biggy).

   What’s interesting is that the home screen also includes Install OS X Lion from Recovery Partition. The fact is that it’s against the license to install OS X Lion in a virtual machine if you have a pre-installed version of OS X Lion. (It’s OK if you purchase the upgrade version from the App Store.)

   Parallels doesn’t follow this license restriction (thank!). Funnily, VMWare Fusion does – it has no method for doing this.
8. 

   I love Apple

   Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 12:08 am · Reply

   For some special software I still need Parallels. But why should I run Windows 8 at all? The best and most logical version of Windows was XP, let’s say: the least illogical version, the least cluttered, the least buggy, etc. So I run XP, especially as this version takes not too much resources unlike Vista and 7.
   • 

     opsono

     Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 11:09 am · Reply

     ” But why should I run Windows 8 at all?”

     You actually need to run this POS to understand, or at least to come to a modicum of understanding, just how formidably horrific it is. You’ll be howling in pain within moments. It’s like watching Plan 9, or The Room- hideous, yet harmless, agony.

Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is here. Run Windows on Mac without rebooting.

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