We are very excited about this year’s release of Parallels Desktop® for Mac Business Edition, the most secure and powerful solution for your employees and team members to run Windows and Windows applications on Mac®. The Business Edition, as always, includes all new features from Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac Pro Edition, plus exclusive business features that make an IT administrator’s routine tasks easier.

Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac release build 13.0.0 (42936) includes the following new features: Parallels Desktop® 13 for Mac is the simplest, most powerful solution for running Windows and Windows applications on Mac® without rebooting. For more information, see the Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac documentation.

Improved Mass Deployment Package

Using Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac you can run several other kinds of operating systems (p. 104 on your Mac, such as several flavors of Linux and Unix, macOS Server, Windows 10 and earlier.
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We made life easier for IT admins who use mass provisioning of virtual machines in their organizations. The new mass deployment package has an intuitive structure and convenient naming, so IT admins spend less time on preparing the package for deployment. The new style also looks like a checklist, which helps reduce time to deploy and make it error-free.

Ability to Pin Selected Windows Applications to Employees’ Dock in macOS

We keep learning from our customers’ experiences—this new feature is one result. IT administrators can now customize mass deployments so end users will have icons for Windows applications—selected by their IT admins—in the macOS® dock. Having a shortcut to most-used Windows applications is a good option for organizations who use a defined list of business-critical applications in Windows.

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The screenshot below is what users would see if you provisioned them with a Windows 10 virtual machine and selected Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Internet Explorer to be accessible from the macOS Dock.

Single Application Mode

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Here is what your users currently see if they run Windows in Window mode. In addition to the Windows desktop, they get the Parallels menu in the Mac menu bar and the Parallels Desktop application icon in the Dock. They are able to change view modes and open the Parallels Desktop Control Center. And since they have access to Windows OS, they are able to change its settings if these Windows VMs are not managed from within Windows OS.

Here is Single Application mode—a special Parallels Desktop deployment option that allows you to completely hide Parallels Desktop and Windows on a Mac, making Windows applications appear like they’re running all by themselves. This mode is designed for administrators who want Mac users in their organization to run a specific Windows application without being aware of Parallels Desktop or Windows running in a virtual machine.

With Single Application mode, you’re able to hide all interfaces that are not the provided Windows application interface.

Here are key benefits of this feature for your users, which also means an easier life for IT:

• A Mac user will not see the Parallels Desktop icon, user interface, or the virtual machine window at any time.

• A Windows application icon is added to the Dock. When the user clicks on the icon, the application will run on a Mac desktop like a native macOS application.

• A Mac user will never know that Parallels Desktop and Windows are running on their Mac computer.

You can provision as many Windows applications in this mode as you want. As a side note, you do not need to use mass deployment to be able to deliver Windows applications to your employees this way—you can execute the package on each end-user Mac manually.

For more information on how to use this feature, please see our Administrator’s Guide.

These new features are all available now in Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac Business Edition, and we have something more coming later this year.

Tell us how we did in the comments, and let us know which particular feature you want to know better—we’ll cover it in one of our next entries.

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The Parallels Desktop for Mac Team

System Requirements for Parallels Desktop 16

Supported Mac Configurations

Minimum To run most applications such as Microsoft Office, accounting, trading, SAP, Matlab, and more.	Best Performance For graphics-intensive applications, high loads, and running multiple virtual machines.
Processor	Apple M1 chip, Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor	Apple M1 chip, Intel Core i5, Core i7, Core i9 or Xeon processor
Memory	4 GB of RAM	16 GB of RAM or more
Storage	600 MB for Parallels Desktop application installation Additional disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows 10)	SSD drive
Graphics	Apple M1 chip, Intel, AMD Radeon or NVIDIA	Apple M1 chip, AMD Radeon Pro graphics card
Operating System	macOS Big Sur 11.1 or newer (when released) macOS Catalina 10.15.7 or newer macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or newer macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 or newer	macOS Big Sur 11.1 or newer (when released) DirectX 11 requires at least macOS Mojave 10.14, but works best on macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer.
Internet connection is required for product activation, updates, and select features.

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple M1 chip):

Only ARM versions of operating systems are supported.

Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview
- Learn how to install Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview in this video.
  Additional information on the M1 experience may be found in this article.
- Windows on ARM can run most of the regular Windows x86 applications. You can download the Parallels Desktop trial and install the application you need. If it doesn't work, let us know at Parallels Forum.
Windows on ARM can run most of the standard Windows x86 applications. You can download the Parallels Desktop trial and install the application you need. If it doesn't work, let us know at Parallels Forum.
Ubuntu 20.10, 20.04
Fedora Workstation 33-1.2
Debian GNU/Linux 10.7
Kali Linux 2021.1

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Intel processors):

Windows 10 (recommended)
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows Server 2019

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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 7 (SP0-SP1)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP0-SP2)
Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise (SP0-SP2)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP0-SP2)
Windows XP (SP0-SP3)
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Windows 2000 Server SP4
Boot2Docker
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8,7 and 6
CentOS Linux 8, 7, 6
Fedora Linux 33, 32, 31
Ubuntu 20.10, 20.04, 19.04, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
Debian GNU/Linux 10, 9
Suse Linux Enterprise 15
OpenSUSE Linux 15.2, 15.1, 15
Linux Mint 20, 19, 18
Kali 2020.2, 2019, 2018
Elementary OS 5
Manjaro 18
Mageia 7
Gentoo Linux **
Solaris 11, 10 **
openBSD 6 **
FreeBSD 12