Parallels Celebrates 10 Years of Innovations and Industry Firsts in Parallels Desktop for Mac

Parallels Celebrates 10 Years of
Innovations and Industry Firsts in Parallels Desktop for Mac

Company Highlights a Decade of Parallels
Desktop for Mac, Offers 25 Percent Birthday Savings to Upgraders and New
Customers Until June 21st

Singapore – June 15, 2016 – Parallels®, a global
leader in cross-platform solutions and creator of the No. 1 selling software
for running Windows® applications on a Mac®, today
announced that June 14-21 it will celebrate 10 years of innovations
and industry firsts in Parallels Desktop for Mac. The online celebration at www.parallels.com will highlight a decade of
innovative features that make it simple to run any application – on Windows XP,
7, 8 and 10, Chrome, Linux and Android – on a Mac.

Now
through June 21st, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
Parallels Desktop or Mac 9 and 10 customers and new customers can save 25
percent off of the purchase of Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac or the Pro Edition
online at www.parallels.com/desktop. See availability and pricing details
below.

“We
are honored that for 10 years and counting Parallels Desktop for Mac has
enabled more than five million consumers, students, professionals and
businesses to seamlessly run Windows on their Macs,” said President Jack
Zubarev. “I would like to specifically thank our development team at Parallels,
which continues to deliver incredible innovations in virtual machine software
performance and features for our customers.” 

Highlights from 10 Years of Parallels
Desktop for Mac:

·        June 15, 2006: Parallels
Desktop for Mac launched and became the first software to bring virtualization
mainstream to Mac computers, enabling customers to simultaneously run Windows
and OS X on a Mac without rebooting

·        Feb. 27, 2007: Parallels
Desktop 2.5 for Mac introduced Coherence Mode, which gave customers the option
of running Windows invisibly in the background and use Windows apps in their
Mac OS X environment with native Mac gestures. Also, its New Virtual Machine
Wizard made it easy to automatically move a PC to a Mac in a few simple clicks. 

·        June 7, 2007: Parallels
Desktop 3 for Mac launched with DirectX support, two weeks before Apple
released the iPhone

·        Nov. 11, 2008: Parallels
Desktop 4 for Mac launched with support for both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
virtual machines

·        Nov. 4, 2009: Parallels
Desktop 5 for Mac launched with full support for Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 (Snow
Leopard), integrated Apple’s Multi-Touch gestures and introduced a Drag &
Drop feature

·        Sept. 14, 2010: Parallels Desktop 6
for Mac launched with full 64-bit architecture support and Mac OS X Spotlight
integration with Windows

·        June, 2011: Parallels
Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition (now known as Business Edition) launched
with features including a unified volume license key and a licensing portal for
IT admins (http://bit.ly/ParallelsDesktopBusiness)

·        Sept. 6, 2011: Parallels Desktop 7
for Mac launched with OS X Lion support, including support of Full-Screen,
Launchpad for Windows apps, and Mission Control

·        Nov. 6, 2011: Parallels Desktop for
Mac helped NASA successfully land the Curiosity Rover on Mars (http://bit.ly/ParallelsMars) 

·        Sept. 4, 2012: Parallels Desktop 8
for Mac launched with full support for DirectX 10, enabled use of Mountain Lion
dictation with text-based Windows apps and shared Bluetooth 

·        Aug. 28, 2013: Parallels Access
mobile app launched, enabling customers to use iPads and iPhones and native
touch gestures to access and run applications on their Macs and Windows PCs
from anywhere, anytime

·        Sept. 5, 2013: Parallels
Desktop 9 for Mac integrated Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive support with 40
percent better virtual machine performance than previous releases

·        Aug. 20th,
2014: Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac launched and supported OS
X 10.10 (Yosemite); in the Pro Edition, the Parallels Wizard optimization
presets automatically configure the virtual machine for the best experience for
different types of users

·        Aug. 19, 2015: Parallels
Desktop 11 for Mac and Pro Edition launched with OS X El Capitan and Windows 10
support; it also brought Cortana to Mac and enabled its use with Mac
applications, as well as introduced a power-saving Travel Mode.

Availability and Pricing

Parallels
Desktop 11 for Mac and Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition are available at www.parallels.com/desktop and at retail stores worldwide.

Now
through June 21st, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time at www.parallels.com/desktop, Parallels Desktop 9 or 10 for Mac
customers and new customers can save 25 percent off of the recommended retail
price (RRP) of Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac and Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro
Edition. The RRP of Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac is US$79.99. Upgrades for
existing Parallels Desktop 9 or 10 for Mac customers are US$49.99 RRP, with an
introductory offer to upgrade to a Pro Edition subscription for US$49.99 per
year RRP. Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition is available to new customers
for US$99.99 per year RRP; it includes a concurrent Parallels Access
subscription (www.parallels.com/access) to remotely access up to five Macs or
Windows PCs from any device.