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The app and service allows users of Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac and Parallels Desktop 6 Switch to Mac Edition, which launch today at retail stores worldwide, to use their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to access and utilize Windows applications running on a Mac from any network, from anywhere, at any time.
The Parallels Mobile app, a client and a service built upon the MyParallels services platform, is complementary with either edition of Parallels Desktop 6 and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store now.
With Parallels’new mobile app and MyParallels service, iOS users can perform tasks such as printing, viewing Flash-based websites and full use of Windows-only applications like Outlook.
Parallels Mobile lets iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users:
– Access any virtual machine running in Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac
– Use any Windows application in your virtual machine, from Internet Explorer to Outlook
– Remotely start, stop and reset virtual machines
– Stay connected via WiFi or 3G networks
– Access your Windows applications from anywhere over the Internet
– Optimize for either speed or graphics performance
Configuration instructions:
– Requires Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac (registered copy) and at least one virtual machine with Parallels Tools installed.
– In Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac, choose Parallels Desktop > Preferences, click Mobile, and log in to your Parallels account using the email you provided during registration.
– Your Mac should be powered on.
– Download Parallels Mobile and install it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
– Open Parallels Mobile and log in to your Parallels account using the email and password you used to register your copy of Parallels Desktop.
Your Mac will appear in the list of available Macs. Click it to access your virtual machines.
“With the popularity of mobile devices skyrocketing, our customers overwhelmingly desire the ability todo more from anywhere without the restrictions that usually come from working remotely,” said Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and CEO, Parallels, in the press release. “With our new Parallels Mobile app and MyParallels service, we make it possible for Parallels Desktop 6 customers to access and utilize their Windows apps wherever they are.”
Source: Parallels
More info and download link for Parallels Mobile app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
MacDailyNews Take: And you thought lazy ingrate Adobe’s Flash was slow natively.
How will this work exactly? No windows applications are optimized for multi-touch.
@cptnkirk Probably the same way as VPN apps – Multi-Touch substituted for point-and-click.
Whoda thunk the iPad would be running Windows before HP’s Vaporslate!
I use Parallels, but I don’t have anything in my windows partition that I can’t live without for a week or two that I might be away from my desktop.
Ok, I’m dumb. What does that mean? Can I run windows 7 on the i-Pad?
You know what’s gonna happen. When the i-Pad came out, I heard someone say, “I’ll wait for the tablet that runs Windows.”
So… MS will have a tab that runs Windows 7, and Apple can’t run OS 10, or Windows?
To some people, it’s NOT a computer yet.
@cw Anyone who can’t even spell the goddamn name will have difficulty understanding what is a computer, it seems…
@cw [2]
Also, there ARE already tablets that run Windows, and anyone who has seem them found them to be utter shite.
Running anything resembling a Windows application on an iPad is like rubbing your iPad in a pile of dogshit and then using it.
@ cw
Actually, Microsoft doesn’t have any tablets at all, and probably never will. Microsoft doesn’t make computers.
But if you mean ‘tablets that run Windows..’ then lukeskymac is correct. Such devices have existed for nearly a decade now. See how well they’ve done?
@ 84 Mac Guy
Maybe… but for those that need to run Windows-only web apps, it’s pretty important, and removes one more barrier to enterprise adoption.
Parallels adds functionality that many may use, integrates into an iPad app and all some of the myopic trolls here can do is dump all over it.
Macdailynews has some quality readers.
@nekogami13
Myopic trolls you say. Feeling pretty righteous today aren’t we.
I happen to be a Parallels user from the day it first came out. It is a fine program and I’m sure it’s iPad version will be a well designed effort.
However, I cringe, piss, and moan everytime I have to use it on one of my Macs because using it means I have to lower myself to using that POS known as Windows.
So, to clarify, the dogshit that I refer to on my iPad is Windows not Parallels.
I tried it and cannot get it to recognize my virtual machines. The support site is worthless. I called tech and got a guy in India that I had a hard time understanding (no offense intended, simple accent incompatibility on my part) in addition to the horrendous background noise of others yelling in what must have been a massive call center. I was patient and understanding but never got my problem resolved.
I bought it and it’s a lot of fun. Someone else could actually use it for work. Turns the iPad into a KVM
No Microsoft anything on my Mac or iPad. He’ll, I won’t even use Bing. They have only proved to be a huge “problem” in my life. Windows anything sucks.
Can’t you already do this with LogMeIn? Parallels is just another Mac OS X application, so if you’re using LogMeIn, you could launch Parallels from there, right?
This just looks to be Parallel’s version of LogMeIn.
@Melanie
Ditto. Why do I want bike wheels on a ferrari?!
Must be just a customized VNC connection directly into Parallels. Hmm I’ll bet that about 90% of the people who read about this will misinterpret / misunderstand just what it is and what it does; its one of those things most people will have to see in action before they get it.
The mobile app is not working for me. It sees my computer alright, but it tells me that there are no virtual machines when in fact I do have one. Click on Refresh and nothing… No support from parallels… maybe they do…but you have to pay for it. For now, the app is only a hype. Logmein is more reliable.
Parallels sux!
VMware is the way to go. Nothing beats their knowledge and expertise.