On August 19, Parallels released Desktop 11 for Mac. It fully supports Windows 10, including Cortana access in OS X, and is ready for OS X El Capitan. One focus of this release, as always, is performance increases.

Additional focuses are 1) Even better integration between OS X and Windows for a more seamless experience, 2) Travel mode, and 3) a new Pro version with special features for developers, power users and IT professionals. PD 11 on Yosemite running both WIndows 7 and 10 Parallels Desktop (PD) 11 makes the combined Windows and OS X experience even more seamless. Notably: • Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana is always on and available to the OS X user.

• The OS X feature called Quick Look can now be applied to Windows documents. • Windows 10 Notifications are available in Coherence Mode. • Sound volume is synchronized between OS X and Windows. • PD 11 makes smart choices about IP address sharing when mobile so that users don't have to pay for Internet access for multiple OSes. And while a purchase of Windows 10 is not yet available within the PD environment, it's easy to to upgrade existing virtual machines of Windows 7 and 8.1 to a purchased copy of Windows 10. Firefox for mac os x el capitan. In terms of performance, 'For Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, boot time and shut down time can be as much as 50% faster.'

Battery life is 25 percent better, and travel mode shuts down resource-intensive services in order to extend the battery life when power is not available. This release also introduces the Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition. Support here includes popular developer tools like Docker, Visual Studio, Chef, Jenkins, Vagrant provider Also included is support for Dropbox for Business, Box, and OneDrive Business.

Parallels today announced the release of Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac with dual support for OS X El Capitan, Windows 10 and always-on access to Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant Cortana. Word for mac labtop. Parallels Desktop 11 Brings Cortana To Mac, Adds Windows 10 And OS X El Capitan Support By Paul Morris August 19th, 2015 It is very rare that a large company offering a popular application or service can work on a substantial upgrade to that product without some of the information leaking into the public domain prior to release.

Finally, the Pro edition allows the user to create more powerful virtual machines with support for up to 16 vCPUs and 64 GB of vRAM. Microsoft Cortana assistant always available to OS X user. As with Yosemite, El Capitan is licensed for use within the Parallels environment. This is a great way to beta test El Capitan, isolated from the Yosemite OS and with labelled snapshots.

Finally, PD 11 has been tested with Apple's new MacBook, and the performance was described by the Parallels chief engineer as 'reasonable and usable.' For more information, visit Pricing and Availability Parallles Desktop 11 for Mac and Mac Pro Edition are immediately available. Pricing is as follows. TMO will be looking at Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac in more detail soon.

Parallels has said that 'Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac will run on OS X El Capitan (10.11) as long as you are on the latest update' and directs customers to this KB to ensure you are up to date on v10: • They recommend upgrading to Parallels 11 which is optimized for El Capitan. Some things that are broken in 10 are: You will NOT be able to drag and drop files from Windows to Mac or use Windows Applications in full screen So, you won't lose any files and you'll just want to be sure you're up to date with 10 according to that KB before making the jump. If you haven't set Time Machine to exclude any files from the backup, you should be fine. If you want to be really cautious, you can find the Parallels virtual machine file and manually copy it onto your external hard drive, free space permitting. Put it at the top level of the drive, not in the Backups.backupdb folder. This will keep your files safe on your external hard drive no matter what happens on your computer. To make sure you can keep actually using Parallels, though, you'll need to make sure you're on Parallels version 10 or 11.