If you are a Mac user, it can sometimes be very handle to drift over to the world of Windows. Several design packages exist purely (or in any practical sense) on Windows only including CorelDRAW, Xara and several specialist 3D and engineering-orientated system. Here, we learn how one leading virtualisation product allows for all this…

Parallels Desktop for Mac has a market share of 90%, which makes it the best selling Mac desktop virtualisation software, according to the company. Parallels Desktop 9 (released Q3 2013) for the Mac is the latest iteration. Except for a dramatic speed increase when it comes to disk performance, I noticed a much faster suspend and shut down of virtual machines. Thunderbolt and FireWire drives were recognised and available to connect to from Windows.

Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac not only brings better performance, but also more integration with technologies most users regard as indispensable these days. For example, from within Windows, you can directly access iCloud, Dropbox and Google Drive. Photo Stream and SkyDrive are also among the cloud services which you can connect to from within your Virtual Machine.

Windows 8 VMs can now be accessed in the usual way, or with the Start menu and the more familiar Windows style access of applications in a window. Windows 8.1 Preview is readily available for download from within Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac.

I downloaded Linux Mint and found out that Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac recognised the downloaded '.DMG' file, offering me a chance to install the virtual machine instantly and without further ado. You can also opt to do it the old, hard way.

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Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac (build 9.0.24172) addresses overall stability and performance issues, and includes the following fixes: Resolves an issue with the OS X login screen appearing after moving the mouse pointer to the left bottom corner of the screen while Windows is running in Coherence. Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hardware emulation virtualization software, using hypervisor technology that works by mapping the host computer’s hardware resources directly to the virtual machine’s resources. Each virtual machine thus operates identically to a standalone computer.

Security is better in version 9. Not only can you install several free anti-virus and backup applications ( time-limited licenses) from within Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac, but there's a central console for everything that concerns security.

Power Nap, a portable Mac feature that I couldn't try out, is supported by the new version, as is the Dictionary Lookup gesture in Windows applications. Another new feature that works wonderfully well is printing to PDF. You don't just get to print to PDF. The driver lets you print to a PDF that's automatically saved on your Desktop — the Mac's, of course.

The setup of external monitors should be remembered between sessions, and keyboard shortcuts can be edited so you can tune Windows to your liking.

In Linux, the Mint version installed in under two minutes on my machine, you now get shared applications, shared profile folders, and symlinks in shared folders.

Whenever I mounted a Thunderbolt disk, Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac's connection dialogue popped up and asked me if I wanted to connect the device to Windows or to the Mac.

I have a seven Virtual Machines on my installation, and they all work like a charm. Suspend and shut down were noticeable faster, while some other performance boosts were less noticeable on my machine. One thing that I didn't quite like was the insistence of Parallels Access to nag me at (Mac) startup time to log in to my Parallels account and start using its mobile functionality.

Parallels Access is another novelty from the Parallels people and while I'm sure it's a brilliant app, I don't want it to be shoved down my throat. Removing the app and the launch daemons set this right.

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Parallels Desktop 9 for the Mac is another upgrade of this virtual systems tool. This one outperforms the previous version in more than one area, with a number of improvements that you simply must have if you depend on Windows for whatever task you can't do with OS X.

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This article was originally published by IT-Enquirer, September 2013