Parallels lets OS X users run multiple operating systems on a Mac.
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BERLIN -- Parallels released version 8 of its virtualization product today, updating the Windows-on-Mac software to stay up to date with both Microsoft's and Apple's latest operating systems.
The software uses a technology called virtualization that lets a guest operating system, including Windows, Android, or other instances of OS X, run atop an OS X host. That's handy for transitions -- there are lots of new Mac users these days switching from Windows even if Windows still dominates.
There are two big reasons customers pay $80 for the software to do that, said Parallels Product Manager Kurt Schmucker, speaking here at the IFA consumer-electronics show today: Web pages that require Internet Explorer and the Windows version of Microsoft Office.
After that, there are no more big, obvious Windows programs, but instead a collection of more than 10,000 Windows apps. "A lot of them are internal to a company," Schmucker said, legacy software that's not being updated.
Parallels Product Manager Kurt Schmucker describes Parallels 8 at the IFA consumer-electronics show.
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