1-selling software for running Windows applications on a Mac delivers numerous indispensable conveniences for millions of users, including support for the upcoming Windows 8.1 and Mac OS X Mavericks Parallels Desktop® 9 for Mac Seamlessly Unites Windows, Mac and the Cloud Pushes the Envelope with up to 40 Percent Performance Improvement I would be definitely be using the Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac soon and have a good feel on the latest features, after which I will be posting a comprehensive user PoV on it. Overall, I’m very impressed with what they added from just reading about it on the press release and product briefing. Download Ubuntu 13.04 VM from New VM Wizard.Nested virtualization support (Xen, KVM).Added support for popular distributions: Linux Mint, Linux Mageia.So this is also a plus point for me! The following are the new integration for Linux guest OS Linux guest integration: Parallels Desktop customers who use Linux now have additional and enhanced integration with the Mac OS PDF printer for Windows: Lets people print from any Windows application to a PDF on the Mac desktop, even if the application doesn’t have that functionality Yet another feature that I wish was available when Mountain Lion was released and had the Dictionary lookup feature on the OS itself. Mac gestures inside Windows apps: Parallels Desktop now includes the addition of the Dictionary lookup gesture in Windows applications Power Nap support: On a Retina MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air, the Power Nap feature now extends to Windows and Windows apps, so virtual machines and all Windows applications are always up-to-date

No more redundant file synchronisation! And Photo Stream availability from the Windows VM? Wow! That was one feature that I’ve always wanted available! Support for cloud services: Sync iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive etc., with your Mac and your Windows virtual machine without unnecessary duplication of files locally Let me highlight some of them which I think is rather useful. Looking at the press release (full press release posted below), the feature set is seriously impressive. It’s closest competitor, VMWare, in my opinion don’t even come close to the rate of innovation Parallels does on the Mac virtualisation platform. And now, Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac has just released available first for existing customer upgrades and soon, for new customers. And every year without fail, Parallels Desktop just continue to keep getting better, not just from the perspective of having new features but also in improving its performance.

Since the time I started my journey with using a Mac and therefore using (at the time) Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac for my Windows virtualisation needs, it was impressive even at the time. Every year, Parallels continues to impress me with its ability to add new features to the already feature rich Parallels Desktop for Mac product.

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