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I had to choose whether to open Windows 8 apps in a window or view the full Windows desktop, and whether or not use a Windows 7-style start menu (more about these in a moment), but, after making my choices, the download and installation proceeded automatically, and created a user account with the same user name and password that I use in OS X.
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I used the wizard to install Windows 8.1 Preview-if I decide to keep Windows 8.1 after the free preview expires, I'll have to buy an activation key from Microsoft-and the whole process required only a few clicks. (This migration option requires you to reactivate Windows with a new activation key that you'll need to buy from Microsoft.)
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Other options let you install an operating system from a DVD or a downloaded disk-image file, or-if you have the patience-create a virtual version of an existing Windows PC by transferring its contents across a network.
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Alternately, you can create a virtual version of your current OS X system, giving you a clean, fresh copy of Lion or Mountain Lion that you can use for testing new software while using your main system for everyday work. You get a half-dozen ways to create a virtual machines, either by letting the wizard download and install the free Windows 8.1 Preview, or by downloading free operating system like Chrome OS from Google, or Ubuntu Linux, or Android. Let its wizard do its work Parallels starts strutting its stuff as soon as you launch it and run its New Virtual Machine wizard.
It's impossible to make keyboard settings like these match perfectly between OS X and Windows, and Parallels and Windows provide slightly different defaults, but you can modify the defaults to suit your needs. You have to think less about which OS you're running, so you can think more about your work. For example, by default, both set up Windows so that when you type Command-C or Command-V to copy and paste, which are the standard keystrokes on the Mac, Windows acts as if you typed Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, which are the standard copy-paste keystrokes in Windows. And you don't need to use Apple's Boot Camp technology, which shuts down OS X and reboots your Mac into Windows, but, instead you can run Windows and Mac apps side by side, or on separate monitors, or any other way you like.īoth provide tight integration between OS X and Windows. You can use all your peripherals, including your MacBook's camera, inside Windows.
But the virtual machine is tightly integrated with your OS X system, so that you can run Windows applications, or the complete Windows desktop, on your OS X desktop and drag and drop text, pictures, of files between OS X and Windows. Each runs Windows as a "virtual machine," meaning that a complete Windows computer exists on your Mac entirely in software-a disk file is a "virtual" hard disk for your Windows system, and an OS X window is its virtual monitor. As in earlier versions, Parallels has a broader feature set, but VMware's less intrusive style makes me prefer it to Parallels.īoth Parallels and Fusion perform the same basic functions. It isn't easy to make a clear choice between them, and you can't go far wrong with either one. Parallels Desktop 9 and VMware Fusion 6 appeared with a week of each other, both with support for Windows 8.1 and the forthcoming OS X 10.9 Mavericks, both claiming enhanced feature sets and improved speed-note that I didn't notice any spectacular speed increase in either. Reliable as clockwork, both commercial apps that run Windows on your OS X desktop arrive with new versions at around the same time.
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