All pages can be expanded into full-screen mode, too. Similarly, you can double tap to zoom, and scroll around documents as you would on an iPad-native page. For example, you can select words with a finger and then drag them, and use the same actions to copy and paste as you would in an iOS app. As with other Parallels virtualization software, you can use the selection tools that are part of the desktop apps that you are using, but Parallels has also developed features that effectively apply the gestures that you’re used to on the iPad to the virtualized files. 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.
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.
The Mac Agent is available immediately, and the PC Agent is currently in beta and is available at no charge during the beta period.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. Each Mac or PC being accessed needs its own subscription. Parallels Access for iPad is initially available for purchase on the App Store as an annual subscription at US$79.99 for each computer being accessed. Unmatched access: Even with low bandwidth, Parallels Access makes it work.
Desktop keyboard on iPad: Shows up just when you need it, contains Windows and Command keys too.iPad native scroll for desktop applications: It’s scrolling that just works.SmartTap and magnifying glass: Tap with precision inside your desktop applications, so you never miss a thing.iPad native copy and paste: Select and copy from your desktop and paste it anywhere – between iPad apps, or even from desktop to desktop.iPad native select and drag: Select words and graphics with one finger, on Mac or Windows applications, then drag, drop and go.App Switcher: Switch between desktop applications with ease, literally going from app-to- app in a tap.App Launcher: Start any desktop application, Windows or Mac, as if it were made for an iPad.Support of devices in addition to the iPad is in development.
With Parallels Access, just tap right to what you need to get done, in any Windows or Mac application.ĭeveloped by the makers of Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Access is now available for the iPad with full support for Macs, and Windows support is available as a free beta. Now you can enjoy native iPad gestures even in applications not optimized for iPad. Parallels has introduced the Parallels Access for iPad, which "applifies" Windows and Mac applications to allow customers to remotely access and experience them as if they were made for iPad. Parallels Access for iPad "Applifies" Mac and Windows Applications