The Pro edition includes a Visual Studio debugging plugin that now works on M1 Macs, among other bonuses specific to some professional use cases. Parallels Desktop 17 costs $79.99 annually for the standard edition or $99.99 for the 'Pro' edition. The other big addition is virtual TPM chip support for Windows 10 and 11 virtual machines, facilitating features like BitLocker and Secure Boot. As is customary with these annual updates, the new version of Parallels Desktop will be able to run on Monterey host machines or run Monterey in virtual machines. Don’t forget MontereyĪlso, support for this year's new version of macOS, Monterey, has been added. There are other improvements to Coherence, too, like Windows shutdown and sign-in screens that are presented in a way that feels more native and natural within macOS. For example, you can now drag and drop content between apps running under macOS and those running in Windows while using Parallels in Coherence mode. There are other added features and quality of life improvements, too. Distribution of this work or derivative of this work in any form is prohibited unless prior written permission is.

Also, both Intel and ARM Macs will see up to sixfold-better OpenGL performance with Windows virtual machines.

In particular, DirectX 11 performance is getting a boost (Parallels says it's 28 percent faster). In any case, Parallels is claiming significantly improved performance on M1 Macs compared to last year's release, which was the first to add support for said Macs.