Parallels Launches a New Public Beta for Mac

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Aug 3, 20072 mins

Parallels has launched a new public beta of their Parallels Desktop for Mac product today. According to the company, the public beta includes several new features. Coherence windows now work with Expose! This means that each individual Windows application window will appear as a separate, selectable window when you hit F9 to enter Expose. These windows also have OS X effects too, like drop shadows. You'll also b

Parallels has launched a new public beta of their Parallels Desktop for Mac product today. According to the company, the public beta includes several new features.

  • Coherence windows now work with Expose! This means that each individual Windows application window will appear as a separate, selectable window when you hit F9 to enter Expose. These windows also have OS X effects too, like drop shadows. You’ll also be able to “stack” Windows application and Mac application windows in any order you’d like, so the experience is completely seamless.
  • The Image Tool is back and completely compatible with snapshotted drives. Using the image tool, users can Convert virtual hard drive format (plain to expanding, expanding to plain), Enable/disable the “undo disk” option, which will erase all changes made during a session at shutdown), Easily enlarge a virtual hard drive if you’re running out of space.
  • Explorer, a free utility that lets you browse and work with your VM’s hard drive even with the VM is off, now also works with VMs that are suspended.
  • iPhone support in XP and Vista.
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The public beta is free for all Parallels Desktop 3.0 users that have a trial or permanent key.

You can download the software, here.