In fact, it felt like Parallels Desktop was doing such an excellent job of managing memory, it felt like I could pile a lot of tabs into the browser, and my Mac wouldn't miss a beat. You'd think that running virtualization software with a preview operating system (I'm using Windows 11) and then throwing a browser on top of that would kludgy and cumbersome. It fired up, I thought, 'oh, I wonder how bad this can be?' assumed it would be quite awful, and then realized that I'd been using the browser all day without any issues. It all started a few weeks back when I accidentally clicked on Edge in my Mac's dock (I'd added it when I was testing Parallels Desktop). Microsoft Edge running on Windows 11 inside Parallels Desktop 17 on a Mac Here's the Windows version of Edge running as an application on my Mac. I can put links in the Mac dock or Launchpad, and run the apps from there and not have to see of deal with Windows at all.Īnd yet, the apps are inside a virtual machine, safely cocooned from the host Mac. Coherence Mode allows Windows applications to break free of the Windows 'window' on the Mac and allows them to run alongside other Mac applications. You double-click the icon and you're inside Windows in seconds.įor a few years now, Parallels Desktop has had this feature called Coherence Mode. In fact, it turns a Mac into one of the best PCs for Windows that you can buy.

It's head-and-shoulder above the competition and is the best way to run the Windows operating system and Windows applications on a Mac.

One of my all-time favorite apps for the Mac is the virtualization software Parallels Desktop.

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