If you've switched from Windows to a Mac, there's a good chance you want to run some of your old Windows apps, but there's no exact match for them in the Apple-centric world. Even if there's an OS X version of your favorite program, it may work differently than it does on Windows—as the OS X versions of Microsoft Word and Excel apps work differently than their Windows counterparts. This is the problem like Parallels Desktop are designed to solve. Parallels Desktop and are the leading virtualization software for OS X, and both let you run Windows apps on the OS X desktop almost as if they were running on a Windows machine. Change apostrophe in word for mac.

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Firefox for mac. Parallels offers the deepest integration between Windows apps and OS X systems, and the latest version, Parallels Desktop 12, offers major advances in the depth of its integration with Windows 10. Combined with impressive speed improvements, Parallels remains the top choice for less technical users, though both Parallels and Fusion have their own advantages. Versions and Pricing Parallels Desktop comes in three versions. The Standard edition (tested here) costs $79.99 for a license that lasts forever, but it doesn't include upgrades to any future versions. The Pro edition, which costs $99.99 per year, adds free upgrades to any future new version and a subscription to the Parallels Access remote-desktop service (normally $20 per year). The Pro version also includes high-level features that I didn't test, including the ability to access a guest OS via or from a browser (if the guest OS is set up as a Web server) and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and virtualization tools like.

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There's also a Business edition, which is subscription-based and adds centralized management features, built-in access to cloud services like Dropbox or Box, and 24/7 support—you have to contact the company for pricing quote, however. Use Cases Users typically run Parallels (or competitor Fusion) in one of two modes. Either you use the virtualization app to open a complete Windows desktop on your Mac, or you use it to open a single Windows app in an OS X window, as if the Windows app were actually an OS X app. If you sometimes need to work as if you were using a real Windows system, you use the Windows Desktop mode—and you can drag files between the OS X desktop and the Windows desktop. If you only want to use, say, the Windows version of Excel on your Mac, then you use the Single App mode, which Parallels calls Coherence Mode.

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In either mode, you can set up a sharing option that lets your Windows apps save and open files directly to and from any folder on your OS X disk. If you use the Windows Desktop mode, Parallels gives you tight integration between the host OS X system and the guest Windows system. For example, you can select a file on the Windows desktop, or in a Windows Explorer window, then pop up the file's right-click context menu and find an option to Open in Mac.

This causes the file to open in the default OS X application for that file type. Or you can do the reverse and add a Windows app to the Open With menu in OS X. This latter operation may require you to follow some manual steps in Parallels, however. Also—and this needs no special setup—you get OS X's QuickLook feature in Windows.

Parallels Desktop 12 review: A nearly perfect blend of Windows and Mac Parallels Desktop 12 adds 20 one-click utilities to its bag of tricks, along with improved performance for Windows virtual. Parallels Desktop 12 also takes an unexpected detour, by including a new set of utilities, called the Toolbox, that focus purely on the Mac side of the fence. Parallels Desktop is the easiest, fastest, and most tightly integrated app for running Windows apps or the Windows desktop in Apple OS X. The Good Parallels Desktop 10 runs multiple operating systems simultaneously and seamlessly, and allows you to use Mac OS features from within other environments. The Bad Parallels cannot run the. Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac review The latest edition of the virtualisation software support Windows 8, but is it worth the paying £39 when there are products out there which are considerably.