Retina Display is a marketing term coined by Apple representing its technology that enables the screen to show more detail than traditional displays. Parallels Desktop allows you to use Apple’s Retina Display technology on the Windows OS. This feature makes managing multiple virtual machines simultaneously as easy as possible. You can also customize keyboard shortcuts for each virtual machine.Īnother notable feature is that you can easily switch between macOS and Windows virtual machines with a simple mouse scroll. Parallels Desktop lets you use all your Mac keyboard layouts in Windows automatically. You can also do the inverse open macOS apps from a Windows virtual machine. You can launch and access Windows applications right from the macOS Dock after installing a Windows virtual machine. You can open Microsoft Word (opens in new tab), Excel (opens in new tab), or PowerPoint (opens in new tab) documents from the Safari browser in their native Windows Office app.

Notable features included in Parallels Desktop for Mac includes The app lets you purchase, download, and install the Windows OS in a few clicks. You could install it through optical disc image, USB, CD, DVD, or the app. There are several ways to install virtual machines on Parallels Desktop.

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