If you use multi-monitors a lot, Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac provides a better support for it, remembering your setup at different locations, presumably by remembering your setup per monitor. So for the less tech savvy users, this is a nice feature to have. Having said that, it does require you to know how to map network folders in Windows in the first place. You could actually also easily do this, albeit manually, on the previous versions of Parallels. You must download and install SkyDrive for the desktop in order for the feature to work. However, there is a known issue on the SkyDrive sharing as noted here in this knowledge base document. Sharing SkyDrive folders with Mac OS X is not directly supported with the preinstalled Windows 8 SkyDrive app. This essentially eliminates redundancy on both your Mac and Windows virtual machine if there’s a need to access those files on either end. Likewise on the opposite direction, you can share your Windows SkyDrive sync folder with the Mac. However, as cool as this may sound, it’s actually just Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac automatically mapping the Dropbox, iCloud and/or Google Drive folders on your Windows virtual machine. This feature allows you to simply have a single cloud sync folder between your Mac and the Windows guest. I’m not an OS X developer but looking at the HIDictionaryWindowShow function, it seems like it’s possible to do so. Secondly, notice that the Dictionary text selection is just a dash? The imperfection bothers me somehow, and I think Parallels could have made it do the Dictionary text selection look better, using the actual selected text and also using the same font, both of which can be extracted out from Windows APIs by the Parallels Tools and passed on over to OS X Dictionary Service. Not sure if the current OS X Dictionary Service allows for this. One, I would like this to be available not just in Coherence mode, but also when the virtual machine is running in Full Screen mode. Only after a while, I realised that this only works in Coherence mode! I usually run my Windows virtual machine in Full Screen mode these days, especially since Windows 8 and its funny full screen only Metro apps. As you can see in the screenshot above, it’s actually kinda cool to have Dictionary support across OS X and also the Windows applications as I’m slightly dyslexic and often need to look up the dictionary just confirm my spellings and its meaning.Īgain, the picky me as a couple of ‘not-quite-complains’ with this feature. However, I was initially stumped as to how to get it working. OS X dictionary gesture support on Windows applications! And since I’ve mentioned Oracle’s VirtualBox, I work for Oracle but not directly involved in the development of VirtualBox. ![]() Also, it’s important that I point out that I also owns my own copy of the latest version (as of today) of VMWare Fusion and regularly uses it for work, along with the free-to-use Oracle VirtualBox. But even so, I will strive to be as fair as possible as I’ve always been in my review and opinions, despite the fact that I’m quite the advocate of Parallels Desktop for Mac. ![]() A complimentary copy of Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac was provided to me by Parallels for this review. I’m quite certain you’d be convinced.īut before we go on, a disclaimer is appropriate. But do read on and also some of my previous articles here and see why I say so. However, if you’re not already an existing user of Parallels, well, you should be one of you own a Mac. So, if you already are an existing user of version 8 or below, hopefully this will help you determine if the latest version is worthy of the $49.99 upgrade price. In this article, I explore the new features in Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac and see how useful they are in reality. ![]() In plain speak, you can run Windows apps on your Mac, as if its built for the OS X. If you don’t already know what Parallels Desktop does, it’s basically software that allows you to run guest OSes, like Windows 8 or Ubuntu Linux over a virtualization layer. Almost like clockwork, Parallels released yet another new version of their popular product, Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac, a year after version 8 was released.
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