Editor’s Note: This is part two in our five-part series looking at the best software for running Windows on Intel-based Macs. Parallels ( ) came out in beta form in April of last year, not long after ...

In part to answer VMware’s announcement of its Fusion Mac virtualization software public beta, and in part to doll itself up for Macworld Expo, Parallels released a beta version (actually, two betas ...