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Parallels Desktop 10 with OS X Yosemite and iCloud Drive Support Launches for Existing Customers

Supertaff said:
God I hate to hear all this whinging whenever a new version of software comes out and someone has to pay for it.
... V9 of Parallels is working fine for me with Yosemite, and I did chose to buy version 10, because I like to stay up to date and it works fine as well.
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I generally don't mind paying for upgrades, and often pay my share and more for shareware and donationware that I find of use.

But with Parallels' "support" and slow bug fixing, you're not getting your money's worth: I purchased a full copy of v9 this year (I've owned all the odd numbered versions; no need buying EVERY year), but a bug that remained unfixed for three months after the introduction of OS X 10.9.3 -- a bug in Parallels itself -- left me high and dry for months.

Parallels response: Sign up for our mailing list, and we'll let you know when it's fixed.

My response was to purchase VMWare Fusion and cut losses.
 
Isn't there any sort of bundle that includes Parallels?
Anyway, it's crazy for a uni student to shell out $40/yr, so I'll probably opt for VirtualBox. I saw it on Windows, and it pretty much works.
 
Bought v9 on the 24th so officially I was not allowed a free upgrade. However, I was still able to get a refund. This makes no sense. So I called and complained and got a key for a free upgrade....but they failed to provide the download link so it's kinda useless for now. Argg!

At least I got the upgrade I guess. I'm sure I'll eventually get the download.

Edit: Used a link above to find the forums and then find the dl link.
http://parallels.com/directdownload/pd10/
 
Its a race...


There are some features i miss in Parallels after moving over to Fusion like Drobox support, and now this,

But its all suttee features.

Oh yea.. Fusion still doesn't have drag and drop support for OS X :p Wait a burst my bubble Parallels
 
Price is fine but this is the second time I'm a few days short to be elegible for tech guarantee, in this case 10 days! come on, at least give us a discount to those who were left in the cold.
 
jigzat said:
Price is fine but this is the second time I'm a few days short to be elegible for tech guarantee, in this case 10 days! come on, at least give us a discount to those who were left in the cold.
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Honestly, why didn't you learn the lesson the first time? Upgrade as soon as a newer version comes out, every other version to get 2 years of support, covering the latest OS from Apple.
 
nicklad said:
Honestly, why didn't you learn the lesson the first time? Upgrade as soon as a newer version comes out, every other version to get 2 years of support, covering the latest OS from Apple.
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Yes I know, I should have known better, I let advertising do its thing.
 
vantelimus said:
Have some perspective. You cannot expect a program like Parallels, which requires tight integration with the OS, to integrate perfectly whenever you upgrade to a new version of OS/X
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That's right. I don't expect perfect integration. I don't expect all the new features. But if a software company plans to make their product obsolete within two years, I do expect to be told at the time of purchase.

MS Office 2011 doesn't have all the features of 365, but it still works with Mavericks. Office 365 will not work one year after purchase when the paid subscription expires, but that was written on the box.

Parallels have not been up front. And that is disappointing.
 
brilliantthings said:
...if a software company plans to make their product obsolete within two years, I do expect to be told at the time of purchase...
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How could they be upfront? Parallels didn't "make" their product obsolete. If anyone did, it was Apple. So to set the record straight, don't expect the new Parallels 10 to fully support all of the features of Apple's 2017 operating system. If might not even support all of 2016's features.
 
chabig said:
How could they be upfront? Parallels didn't "make" their product obsolete. If anyone did, it was Apple. So to set the record straight, don't expect the new Parallels 10 to fully support all of the features of Apple's 2017 operating system. If might not even support all of 2016's features.
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I think you're being a little naïve. Developers are perfectly capable of providing updates to make their software compatible with each new OS release. Most developers do. Parallels decision to only provide these updates for $50 is deliberate. They have the right to do this. But most companies have the decency to call this model a subscription.
 
brilliantthings said:
I think you're being a little naïve. Developers are perfectly capable of providing updates to make their software compatible with each new OS release. Most developers do. Parallels decision to only provide these updates for $50 is deliberate. They have the right to do this. But most companies have the decency to call this model a subscription.
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I think it's naive to believe that developers have unlimited resources. They run a business. Decisions have to be made about resource allocation--how much do you divide your time between keeping the old version updated versus making the new version great? I can't make that decision for Parallels, but I do like their product and I don't find $50 per year an excessive cost something that's useful. They do have to make a living.

The reason Microsoft Office still works is because it doesn't interface with the operating system at a low level. It only uses high level APIs that are stable. Parallels, on the other hand, is doing a lot of very low level stuff that requires changes when the OS changes.
 
chabig said:
I think it's naive to believe that developers have unlimited resources. They run a business. Decisions have to be made about resource allocation--how much do you divide your time between keeping the old version updated versus making the new version great? I can't make that decision for Parallels, but I do like their product and I don't find $50 per year an excessive cost something that's useful. They do have to make a living.

The reason Microsoft Office still works is because it doesn't interface with the operating system at a low level. It only uses high level APIs that are stable. Parallels, on the other hand, is doing a lot of very low level stuff that requires changes when the OS changes.
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I agree entirely. Just think they should call it a subscription.
 
Steve121178 said:
Try Fusion for free:

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion

I think you get 30 days. I find it excellent for 8.1.
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You can try Parallels for free as well.

I also use VMWare at work and of course it makes since in the business world. However, at home, I am not at work.

I used fusion in the past but I switched to Parallels since it usually performs better where home applications matter.

To call Parallels crap is just wrong. It performs better than fusion in most category in every release and has for quite some time. Their home prices are about the same.

For a $49 upgrade I think it is worth it and I got the upgrade to 10 from 9 for free. Granted it was a recent purchase. To think you should get lifetime upgrades for free is not logical and would not be a good business model for a software company.

Also, it isn't necessarily an annual upgrade. I didn't need to upgrade when I moved to Mavericks. I ran 8 until the Yosemite Beta.
 
cube said:
So basically if you bought it 2 weeks before the new release. Great. :(
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Yeah that's a pretty short/poor free upgrade window. I've seen a lot of other software developers offering free upgrade covering several months duration, rather than weeks.
 
brilliantthings said:
That's right. I don't expect perfect integration. I don't expect all the new features. But if a software company plans to make their product obsolete within two years, I do expect to be told at the time of purchase.

MS Office 2011 doesn't have all the features of 365, but it still works with Mavericks. Office 365 will not work one year after purchase when the paid subscription expires, but that was written on the box.

Parallels have not been up front. And that is disappointing.
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Nothing to be upfront about, Parallels have been using this model since about 2008.

Virtualisation software digs deep into the OS. When Apple start messing with the plumbing under the OS X GUI it's going to significantly affect a product like Parallels or VMware where productivity software like Office will be unaffected.

For those whingeing about the 2 week free upgrade window, there's always a new version around this time of year, or when a new version of OS X is due.
 
chabig said:
How could they be upfront? Parallels didn't "make" their product obsolete. If anyone did, it was Apple. So to set the record straight, don't expect the new Parallels 10 to fully support all of the features of Apple's 2017 operating system. If might not even support all of 2016's features.
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Parallels 8 worked fine with Yosemite DP1-DP4 on my 13" rMBP (late-2013). DP5 comes along (the first public beta), and suddenly it no longer works. Since Apple has committed to annual updates to OS X, and Parallels essentially commits only that Parallels Desktop will work with the current and immediately succeeding version of OS X, this essentially becomes a subscription model. $80 upfront, and $25/year thereafter ($50/year if you want the latest version). Maybe they should just switch to a subscription model a la Office 365.
 
Tech198 said:
Its a race...
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It's always been a race :) The only real difference seems to be graphic performance in Windows (where Parallels shines) and support of non-Windows systems (where Fusion shines).

There are some features i miss in Parallels after moving over to Fusion like Drobox support, and now this,
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I don't really care about having Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. support. There are clients for OS X, Windows and Linux and you can use shared folders. If you map your homedir to the vm you can reach all the folders including the Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. ones. The integration seems to be more marketing than actually something useful.

Oh yea.. Fusion still doesn't have drag and drop support for OS X :p Wait a burst my bubble Parallels
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No problem with drag 'n drop with Fusion when running Windows, Linux or OS X as the guest OS here :)
 
SkeeterHarris said:
Just completed my video review of Parallels Desktop 10 and it's an awesome release you can see the video here http://youtu.be/dy5eKs-dHG0
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Thanks for this review.
I've just completed some benchmarking of v9 & v10 which Ive published on my blog. The difference certainly wasn't anywhere near as big as I hoped for. In summary, -1% single threaded computations, +3% multi threaded, GPU and disk I/O approx +10%. I suspect that selling versions based on performance improvements alone is going to be tough.
 
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I find this discussion really interesting. You all over pay for Apple compared to PCs and then bitch about $40 software to get your overpriced device to run the stuff the PC does. I am glad to have the best of both worlds and the $50 bucks is worth it otherwise the several thousand dollar in Macs even makes less sense
 
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