Test driving Win 10 on Parallels 11

[Franz H]

I'm interested in trying Windows 10, not sure why, perhaps just curious. I have a 13inch, mid-2012 MBA running ElCap with a 1.8 GHz Intel i5, 8GB's of memory and plenty of storage. I run Office 2010.

Installing W10 looks pretty straight forward. If I install W10, do I then need to re-install Office 2010 (I have the disks) or do the systems realize I already have it and make it accessible within the new Win 10 vm?

Thank you, FH

 

[Sam_S]

I'm interested in trying Windows 10, not sure why, perhaps just curious. I have a 13inch, mid-2012 MBA running ElCap with a 1.8 GHz Intel i5, 8GB's of memory and plenty of storage. I run Office 2010.

Installing W10 looks pretty straight forward. If I install W10, do I then need to re-install Office 2010 (I have the disks) or do the systems realize I already have it and make it accessible within the new Win 10 vm?

Thank you, FH

You will have to install the Windows version in Parallels. The version you are running on Mac is different.

 

[Franz H]

Sam,

Thanks. I failed to mention that I run Office 2010 on Win 7 using Parallels 11. I already own/use the Windows version.

Sorry.

 

[belvdr]

If you are standing up a new VM running Windows 10, you'll need to install Office within the new VM.

With Parallels 11, though, your Windows VM can open files through your Mac applications.