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These are interesting times for professional developers.Parallels Desktop 16 still the best way to run Windows on a Mac, but faces uncertain future I am actually having fun with Cortana but wonder if Siri will perform as well within El Capitan.
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I was pleased with the new features and cannot wait to see how well it works with the new Mac OS X El Capitan.
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Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro  has upped the ante. Also, for the mobile professional there’s a new travel mode feature to extend the battery life of your laptop. Network simulation tools are also available for testing and analysis. The Parallels Pro edition also include tools for the developer such as direct support for Docker, Vagrant, Chef, and Jenkins. The advantages are being able to develop in the OS environment of choice, and if the app crashes it does not affect your development work. A second feature of the Pro edition is a plugin for Visual Studio that allows a professional to develop an app in one VM and debug the app in another VM running the same or a different OS. This is a preferred feature of developers or testers, allowing command line access and control of the VM. Control Center has a number of different commands such as ssh which allows the pro user to open a secure shell connection to the VM.
To address the popularity of this mode, Parallels 11 has added a blue coherence mode button to the title bar of all windows.įinally, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro has features that meet the unique needs of developers or pro users. In Coherence mode, you can use both your Windows and Mac applications at the same time without managing two separate desktops or rebooting.
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I was not able to verify the exact numbers, but there was a noticeable increase in booting and closing of my Windows 10 VM.Ĭoherence is a view mode that allows you to run Windows applications on your Mac, as though they were native Mac applications. Performance feature claims include boot speeds for Windows 8 and 10 VM to be twice as fast in comparison to the previous release, and opening Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as 20% faster. All these features contribute to make the Windows to Mac integration seamless. This works even when Windows 10 is not the front most application. With Cortana, the Microsoft personal assistant, voice commands can be used from Windows and Mac. With Windows 10, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro has done the unthinkable: adding a Windows feature to the much exalted Mac OS. The ability to right-click an app in the Dock to see the most recently used documents or create a new document now works for Windows apps. Other Mac features added to Windows include: AirDrop, Spotlight searches, ability to use Mac location services inside Windows, and print within Windows using Mac OS X printer options. The same feature allows you to preview a document on the Windows desktop by selecting a document and depressing the spacebar. QuickLook is a Mac OS X feature that allows you to preview a document by selecting it and pressing the Spacebar. To validate that a new VM would work with Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro, an Ubuntu Linux 14.04 VM was successfully created and tested. All applications and the newest features, including the Microsoft assistant, Cortana, worked as before or as advertised. There were some quirks with my Windows 10 virtual machine (VM) that were resolved after updating Windows and a couple of reboots.
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The update from Parallels Desktop 10 was seamless.
In addition, Parallels fully supports Windows 10 as a guest OS, runs the widest array of OS virtual machines (VM) and supports large VMs up to 64GB of vRAM and 16 vCPUs per virtual machine. Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro retains all of the product features included in Parallels Desktop 10 additionally adding more Mac features to Windows, as well as, for the first time, adding a Windows feature to OS X. This update comes closely behind the release of Windows 10 and just before the soon to be released Mac OS X El Capitan. Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac  is a recent update from Parallels Desktop 10.
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