Use Express Installation to fully automate Windows installation and user account setup.

Activate Windows automatically by specifying a license key before installation.

Download and install Windows automatically in one click.*.

Use Sign in with Apple for Parallels account registration and sign-in.

Choose your View Make Windows invisible while still using its applications in Coherence™ Mode, or if you’re new to Mac, you can set Windows to occupy your entire screen, so it looks just like it would if you were using a Windows PC.

Play your favorite classic Windows-only games on a Mac. Run applications such as Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, PowerBI, AutoCAD, MetaTrader, and thousands more. Lightning Fast Graphic and resource-hungry Windows applications run effortlessly without slowing down your Mac.You may also migrate your Windows PC* or Linux, like Ubuntu (Intel-based Mac computers only).

Easy Set-Up Parallels Desktop automatically detects what you need to get started so you can get up and running within minutes! If you need Windows, you’ll be prompted to download and install Windows 11 or use your Boot Camp installation if you have an Intel-based Mac.Share files and folders, copy and paste images and text, and drag and drop files and content between Mac and Windows applications. Seamless Use Windows, side-by-side, with macOS on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini or Mac Pro-no restarting required.Business Edition also includes security capabilities such as enforcing USB thumb drive device policies and restricting users from altering VM settings or creating new VMs. Admins can also link Parallels Desktop for Mac with an update server to ensure that the guest OS stays up-to-date. Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition includes centralized deployment and management capabilities for IT administrators to streamline Windows VM delivery.

Full Screen mode creates a full guest desktop, and Modality lets users resize and customize virtual machine windows running on top of the macOS. Coherence mode runs guest and Mac applications side by side in one window. Parallels Desktop for Mac comes with three modes. Users can also swap between macOS and Windows without rebooting their computers and select which OS they want specific applications to open in. Similarly, users can drag and drop documents, folders and other data from Windows File Explorer to Finder and vice versa. Users can choose to run Mac and guest apps side by side on the Mac OS or as a full-fledged guest virtual desktop. For example, users can open a Windows app such as Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player from the Mac Finder utility. Parallels Desktop for Mac is desktop virtualization software that allows Microsoft Windows, Linux and Google Chrome OSes and applications to run on an Apple Mac computer. The software integrates the guest OS into macOS, allowing it to mimic native OS performance.

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