Also, users might delete a file from Windows’ My Documents folder, for example, without realizing that they’re actually deleting a folder in their OS X Documents folder. The Open With menu for image and text files, for example, can be huge. While this integration certainly makes working with Windows a seamless experience, it has some downsides, too. You’ll also see icons for your running Windows applications in the OS X Dock and the Open With menus in both Windows and OS X show available programs in both operating systems. User Profile Sharing mirrors the OS X Desktop, Documents, Pictures, and Music folders with their Windows’ counterparts-so files and folders from one OS are visible and usable in the corresponding folder in the other OS. Your OS X home folder is also automatically shared with Windows, and a new feature called User Profile Sharing is activated by default. You’ll even see Windows’ taskbar notification icons in your OS X menu bar-which can be a problem if you don’t have a lot of space on that bar.
New features include the ability to boot in Parallels’ Coherence mode, in which the Windows desktop vanishes and XP/Vista’s windows intermingle with those of OS X. The primary focus of Parallels 4 is increased integration between OS X and Windows’ virtual machines it achieves this by adding integration features and enabling all those features by default. Parallels recently released Parallels 4, which promises better performance and Windows/OS X integration than that of its predecessors the company describes Parallels as the “easy, fast, and powerful way to run Windows on a Mac.” While the product delivers on these promises to some degree, this release of Parallels isn’t without problems. While VirtualBox is the new kid on the block, Parallels is the old-timer, having arrived back in June 2006. People who need (or want) to run Windows or other operating systems on their Intel-powered Macs have three solutions to choose from:
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