I've been using Parallels.com to run Windows XP and Ubuntu virtually on my Mac for a while and it's been pretty good, albeit slow as I haven't been able to give the VMs more than 512MB RAM due to my older MBP's RAM limitations.
Recently I needed to upgrade to the newest Parallels, which was an extra charge.
I went to the Parallels.com website and was sent to element5.com, which is the ecommerce vendor Parallels uses. I purchased the upgrade and waited for my new key. I was told 12 hrs max.
4 days goes by. No word from element5 or Parallels.
Finally I contact Parallels support and the support person,tells me that my order was declined. I was not notified of this. Why was I not notified? Then support tells me that I have to contact Element 5 for support. Why Element 5? I purchased the software from Parallels, not Element 5.
The worst part of all of this is the Element 5 website, which is run by Digital River, who is in the business of selling software online, does not use SSL for any of the username/passwords that they are requesting that users input on their site.
If this is the real state of affairs with Parallels, I'm moving to VMWare.
Vmware's Fusion kept me happy for a while now. The initial couple of releases crashed for Windows XP, but no problems recently.
I've been enjoying parallels so far.
Just curious, is there any reason why I should want to upgrade to the new version? Not that I will, but was there any particular reason why you made the jump to upgrade?
I'm using VMwares Fusion and it works like a charm.