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If you need Windows, you'll be prompted to download and install Windows 10 or choose your existing Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, or Boot Camp® installation.
Still trying to decide if you want to test out Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition? Well, here’s another reason to try it—we just added a pre-configured free trial of Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 to the New Virtual Machine Wizard!
Here’s how to get Microsoft Edge on Mac, so you can start testing in Microsoft’s latest browser:
1. Go to the top navigation of Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition and click on the red ||bars,
2. Select New,
3. Select “Modern.IE test environments” and click on Continue in the lower-right corner of the Wizard to access free trials of pre-configured Parallels Desktop virtual machines from Microsoft, including:
- Microsoft Edge on Windows 10
- IE 11 on Windows 8.1
- IE 10 on Windows 8
- IE 9 on Windows 7
- IE 8 on Windows 7
- IE 7 on Windows Vista
- IE 8 on Windows XP
- IE 6 on Windows XP
If you haven’t purchased Parallels Desktop yet, don’t worry—Mac users can download a free two-week trial of Parallels Desktop for Mac here. During the free trial, you can switch back and forth between Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition and Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition to determine which version best suits your needs.
Important note: to test Microsoft Edge in a Windows 10 VM, you will need to try the Pro Edition and follow the instructions above to download a free trial of Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.
With Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition, you can do even more than just test Microsoft Edge—you can also experience the power and convenience of having Microsoft’s intelligent personal assistant Cortana in Windows, as well as use it with OS X and Mac applications when running Parallels Desktop and Windows 10 in Coherence mode (which makes the Windows 10 interface invisible while enabling the use of Windows apps in OS X).
The Pro Edition is a great choice for consumers as well as power users, even if you don’t use the additional features, because it’s the same easy-to-use interface as Parallels Desktop. Bonus: the Pro Edition is also a subscription service, which ensures that you will always be up-to-date with the latest and greatest features as they are periodically added throughout the year (without having to wait for the next standard edition).
Have fun testing, discovering and experiencing Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 on your Mac, as well as putting Cortana to work for you—and don’t forget to share your experience with us in a comment, or on Facebook or Twitter.
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Parallels today released an update for their OS X virtualization software that will allow Mac users to download, install, and run the Windows 10 Technical Preview as a virtual machine. Yes, Windows 10 on OS X (ten) through Parallels 10. It's a mouthful, and technically experimental support right now. But it's also another avenue for people to try out Microsoft's latest and greatest OS (itself in a not-quite-finished state) without having to resort to crazy things like partitioning.
The update to Parallels brings it to version 10.1.4, and is a free update for existing Parallels 10 users. If you have an installation of Parallels 8 or 9 it's a $49.99 upgrade, while new customers will have to fork over a hefty $79.99 for the privilege of running a virtual Windows 10 machine on their physical OS X machine. That said, it does give the Mac user much more flexibility in their choice of OS — they can concurrently run OS X and with Windows 10 (as well as older versions of Windows, Ubuntu, and more) in a window.
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If you want to check it out, the update for Parallels is available now, or you can download it for a free two-week trial from the Parallels website.
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