Comments on: OS X Mountain Lion Kills Parallels 6

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:24:48 +0000

I’m outraged at PD. I will never use parallel and will discourage anyone that I know from using it.

By: ynot

ynot — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:13:03 +0000

just got round to upgrading to Mountain Lion. Appalled and disgusted that Parallels is the only “incompatible software” on my iMac and am asked to pay YET ANOTHER $50 Parallels upgrade (done that twice already!). AND to add insult to injury, the ‘incompatible software” is squatting on over 250 Megs of my hard drive! Its going to be zapped – and I WONT be buying parallels again (and again, and again) …

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:53:32 +0000

I had Parallels 7 working on my 17 inch Macbook Pro and I just bought the 15 inch for portability and It gives me the same message You cant use this version of Parallels Desktop with this version of OS. I paid the upgrades over the years and now Parallels is holding a gun to my head to upgrade to Parallels Desktop 8. I am getting tired of this nonsense.

By: mediahead

mediahead — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:24:40 +0000

A while ago I grabbed the opportunity to buy P6 at a reasonably discounted price but didn’t even install it until I did upgrade to Mountain Lion (I was planning to reinstall some older Win-only software later). Now I installed and it won’t work. Money gone for nothing unless I spent the same amount again? Fu*# you, Parallels! Your business model is crap: IF your software really is so sensitive to OS changes, you should not offer it at the current price if that means you will have to charge customers over and over again for “updates” (in fact: new versions). It is like selling a car and then telling people they have to buy a new engine every year because the “old” one has become incompatible with a new type of road! Shame on Apple, too, (once more) but in the end it is Parallels’ respnsibility to keep up with developments AND incorporate that into their business model and customer service.

By: Broz

Broz — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:00:40 +0000

I HAD to (pay $50 to )upgrade to 8 from 7 (which ran fine before Mtn Lion) same as virtually everyone else on this blog…only to discover that Windows XP after slow starting for a week or so now DOESN’T EVEN BOOT UP!!! and even after reverting to a snapshot, a week later the same thing happens!! Parallels is a piece of SHIT. I’m going to VMWare and telling every person till I die what a total piece of crap Parallels is as a company and as software… run by a bunch of greedy crooks. If you know what’s good for you: DO NOT BUY PARALLELS OR UPGRADE!!! and then they expect you to PAY to talk to tech support to find out why their piece of shit isn’t even working!

By: biren patel

biren patel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:01:17 +0000

sucks, i will have to fork out the $50. Can’t afford not to since i need it for work. when i upgraded to mountain lion, every one of my apps that worked on lion works just fine on mountain lion….except the one that happens to have a $50 upgrade option.

By: sp

sp — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:07:58 +0000

Parallels is on its way down. How quickly you forget how you became successful. Can’t say i will feel sorry for you when you fail. You have let all you customers down and your employees. Listen up, if you work for Parallels, you should jump ship soon before you go down with them.

By: Ishbish

Ishbish — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:40:47 +0000

You could TRY to edit the info.plist file to say the version number of the latest P7. (PS: I haven’t tried it myself, I don’t have V6).

By: Kish

Kish — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:03:17 +0000

This is absolutely daylight robbery…we pay $79 for a full version then it does not work because OS upgrade and we asked to pay $50 more for version 8. This doesn’t make sense at all I paid $25 for upgrade to a major OS upgrade and this software wants twice as much for a version upgrade. I have second thoughts now to buy Parallel products…you should a very minimal amount and not $50!

By: Ollie

Ollie — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:47:48 +0000

This has really annoyed me! not only is ML rubbish! my parallels has stopped working, honestly they wonder why people pirate software! if parallels read this comment just give us a update to install, stop being tight!