

This is a nice feature that effectively creates a dock that hides when you’re not using it, where apps that you have open can sit for easy swapping. These then can be tapped like apps to launch.Īpp Switcher. This effectively makes the files and applications on the virtual machine appear like a set of apps on the iPad home screen. The new app, which is priced at $79.99 for a one-year subscription covering one device (each subsequent device that gets virtualized costs another $79.99), comes with a number of features:Īpp Launcher.

“With Parallels Access, you can tap, swipe and pinch your way around Mac and Windows applications to ultimately be more productive at work, and lead a more connected life.” “We are now in an always-on age where people are increasingly demanding access to their applications and data regardless of physical location,” said Birger Steen, CEO of Parallels, in a statement.
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The move taps into the bigger trend we have been seeing among enterprises adopting tablets, as more portable laptop replacements, and also the consumerization of IT, where workers use their own tablets to supplement their work PCs to get things done when on the move. It does so by transforming everything into an “app” experience, complete with iOS gestures to control them. However, it is the first one dedicated specifically to making software and documents from Windows and Mac machines work in a “native” way on the iPad. More than a year in the making, Parallels Access for iPad is not the first tablet-friendly product released by the company - an existing-but-now-discontinued product, Parallels Mobile, works on both the iPad and iPhone. Timed to coincide with VMware’s conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own virtualization software to a new screen: the iPad.
