Just discovered Coherence mode in Parallels

[charlien]

For the past couple years I've been running Parallels or VMWare Fusion on my MBP so I can run MS Outlook. I always ran in window mode which was, well kind of ugly. Yesterday I stumbled on a youtube video demonstrating Coherence mode and gave it a try. Wow, no looking back here. It blends the two operating systems applications on the Mac desktop very well.

I'm posting this here in hopes of others seeing it and giving it a try if they haven't.

For those wondering why I run Windows Outlook instead of the Mac version. I sync my Outlook contacts with Google contacts using Soocial and Outlook calendar with Google calendar with Google Sync. Neither work with the Mac version.

 

[pazz]

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Why not just get an exchange service?

Outlook included with Office 2011 syncs with my exchange server with no problems.

 

[charlien]

It's a company account without exchange.

 

[shyam09]

VMWare Fusion has Unity which is essentially the same this as coherence.
also have you tried Crossover.
it's an windows emulator on the mac!
I did a quick compatibility search on Outlook support:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=Outlook+
here is what the metals mean:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/medals

well if you find anything else about parallels or have any questions just post here. im using parallels too!

 

[charlien]

I used Crossover during my fling with Linux. It worked well for some applications but never really considered it for my Mac.