It’s something you can’t even do in Windows 8. As you can see, each metro app is running as a separate process in full screen mode, and you can actually right click to close the app. When you launch a Windows 8 app (or metro app) Parallels knows it and allocate it as a full screen app in Mac. Windows 8 Metro app support in Mac Full screen mode.Two things Parallels Desktop 8 does better than VMware Fusion In my opinion there are few key features in Parallels that’s lacking in VMware Fusion. It takes relative much longer time for the first boot compare to VMware Fusion 5, but after the initial configuration it was relatively similar booting time, although VMware Fusion 5 still come on top in my test.
The test I’ve done is on a MacBook Air 13’’ 2011 version, installed via Boot Camp and use Parallels to boot the Boot Camp partition. However, in Parallels, depends on the some of the app you are running, you might not have the option but to use “command+ c” to copy, instead you have to press “control + c”.īoth allows you to install new Windows, migrate existing Windows and boot Windows from Boot Camp. One thing is different in terms of keyboard shortcuts is that, in VMware it lets you to keep us Mac’s common keyboard shortcut in Windows, that means you can keep pressing keys like “command + c” to do a copy and past in Windows environment. Both allows you to use your existing Mac hardware extensively, the trackpad works great with multi gesture, keyboard mapping works as well. Back then, it seems VMware has nailed it, and yet with Parallels 8 there is almost no difference between the two in terms of hardware support. Obviously there are few reasons you don’t want to do that, one of the many reason is to have better support out of your Mac hardware. It was just month ago, I wrote, if you were want to install Windows 8 on your Mac, the best way is to run it in a virtual machine rather than simply boot natively via Boot Camp. Let’s take a crack at it see how it stack against VMware Fusion when running Windows 8. Parallels released their new version Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac, that supports the latest Windows 8. In fact there are still more people use Parallels to run virtualized Windows on their Mac than VMware’s Fusion.
Parallels is the one of the biggest competitor to VMware in Mac OS X.
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