You'll also be able to use Windows 10's always-on Cortana feature, where you can ask Microsoft's digital personal assistant for directions, restaurant recommendations, sports scores and more, even when you're in OS X. Parallels Desktop 11 gets several performance improvements, including up to 50 percent faster boot and shutdown times and 20 percent faster file operations, both for Windows. With the upgrade, you get three product choices with this launch: Parallels Desktop 11, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro Edition and Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition. It also allows software developers to protect their host computers by isolating possible viruses to the affected operating system. The system can run different operating systems without requiring separate computers for home and work. Parallels Desktop for Mac is a virtualization system that has been letting people run Windows and other operating systems on their Macs for years. It also promises to be much faster (up to 50 percent in some cases) than the versions before it.
Version 11 ushers in support for the two newest OSes in 2015 Windows 10 and the forthcoming OS X El Capitan. Parallels, the software program that lets you run OS X and another operating system side-by-side on a Mac computer, is getting an upgrade.
