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Will Parallels still work well if Apple switches to ARM-based cores in many of their machines?
Parallels used to make Windows & Linux versions of their product [1], so there might still be ways that Corel can continue selling a product even if Apple's new hardware lineup prevents virtualization.
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Yeah, but Windows built-in ZIP support still blows a number of goats, which is why I use 7zip... and the latter is the real reason I'm gobsmacked that Winzip is still around. 7zip's not as pretty but it does support every archive format I've ever used or needed. EDIT: Even more shocking: they own both WordPerfect and Quattro Pro both of which are, apparently, still around. Absolutely stunned.
I installed WinZip on my PC a few years ago because it's the only archiver i'd found that let you view image thumbnails without extracting the whole ZIP, pretty cool feature.
The employer was so cheap that they they didn't want to pay for WinZIP, so we'd wait n number of seconds before the file would zip. Then we'd wait n+1 seconds until it was an hour and a half wait.
I imagine Corel survives from its hardcore fans... but why would it buy Parallels?
Corel still exists?! Good for them!
coreldraw is still the best vector program to interface with laser engravers.
Corel still exists?! Good for them!
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> VirtualBox is free and supported by Oracle. What people are learning, though, is that nothing from Oracle is ever really free, it's simply deferring time evaluating licensing terms and legal costs into the future.
For example, Oracle's interpretation of "personal use" in the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (which applies to the Extension Pack) changed completely sometime in late 2016 / early 2017, without notice. Compare [1] with [2]. Before: "Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother). It doesn't matter whether yo…
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The bigger surprise to me is that they not only exist, but have the money to buy Parallels.
I'm kinda shocked they both exist. Both were good products back in the day, but in 2018? Come on.
Like Kaspersky, parallels is Russian software and on the list of "domestic" software by the Russian government. Parallels has been erasing references to its Russian roots since the hackergate began. Trying to avoid Kaspersky fate and escape sanctions and bans especially when US federal funding is involved? It is not clear who is buying what in this case.
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I've been using Parallels Desktop to develop & test Windows software from a Mac for the last decade. It's excellent, and I would definitely grab a perpetual copy of the current version while you can. VMware Fusion is the other contender, but consensus seems to be that Parallels is now dramatically faster than all the competition [1]. I just bought a Thinkpad and switched back to Windows, so I'm looking for VM softwar…
I would give VMWare a test on the Windows Side, it was always the best option from my own experience in Linux and Windows. That said, I mostly don't notice too much these days and mostly use Docker for (windows|mac) for anything Linux I'm working on in development. The only issue is anything that is a "shared volume" between the host and native will be very slow as it's copying actions in/out of the VM. Staying all i…