Copy and paste, drag and drop are supported for Windows 8.
In the “smart full screen,” the OS X dock is suppressed, and presentations can appear as if they are natively running on a PC. A new Presentation Wizard makes presentations easier and interruption-free by disabling screensavers on Mac and Windows, optimizing the full-screen display and automatically adjusting resolution.
For Windows apps that accept voice dictation, Mountain Lion’s voice dictation can be passed along to them. In OS X, drag a file on the desktop to the Outlook icon and send it, in Windows Outlook, as an attachment.A new button is made available in Safari, “Open in Internet Explorer.” When a website doesn’t render well or at all in Safari, just click the IE button and IE launches on the Mac desktop.Here are the highlights of the new features Parallels 8. This kind of seamless integration is something that Parallels continues to refine, and Parallels 8 has added even more new capabilities. MS Windows can be run in its own window on the Mac Desktop, or Windows apps could be placed in the OS X Dock, launched and run without ever seeing the Windows OS. Even Mountain Lion in Mountain Lion.įor a long time now, Apple customers who love their Macs and OS X have been able to run Windows and Windows apps, if they must, (or other OSes) on their Macs. The many enhancements in Desktop 8, including Windows 8 support, are aimed at making the integration between these two OSes even more seamless.
Parallels has announced the release of Desktop 8 for Mac, its virtualization software that allows OS X users to run a wide variety of other operating systems, notably Windows.