Parallels Desktop for Mac
| Parallels Desktop for Mac | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Parallels | 
| Initial release | June 15, 2006 | 
| Stable release | 20.0.0  (10 September 2024)
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| Operating system | macOS | 
| Platform | |
| Available in | English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Polish, Czech | 
| Type | Hypervisor | 
| License | Proprietary | 
| Website | www | 
Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hypervisor providing hardware virtualization for Mac computers. It is developed by Parallels, a subsidiary of Corel.
Parallels was initially developed for Macintosh systems with Intel processors, with version 16.5 introducing support for Macs with Apple silicon.
Microsoft officially endorses the use of Parallels Desktop for running Windows 11 on Apple silicon Macs.