Reviewed: Parallels Desktop for Mac

Breaking Down the Walls Between Mac OS X and Windows

From the Desk of David Pogue
Breaking Down the Walls Between Mac OS X and Windows
By DAVID POGUE
Published: June 7, 2007
David Pogue reviews a program that lets you run both Windows and Mac OS X at the same time on one computer.

Excerpt:

Shared Networking. I love this one a lot. In Parallels 3.0, Windows "hides" behind the Mac's networking; it's completely invisible to hacks, pings and bots on the Internet looking to infect you. Your "Windows PC" is therefore much less likely to wind up becoming a "zombie" or "bot" that does the bidding of spammers behind your back.

Comment: My co-worker Mike M brought in his son's Mac book and demo'd Parallels several weeks ago. Very cool. Sad that Windows does not have better protections built into the operating system (unlike Mac which is built on UNIX, and LINUX (Unix like))

My interest is not running Windows programs on a MAC (since I have a company laptop anyway!) but in running Linux on Parallels.