December 2019 • Macworld 41controller and playing a variety of games streamed
over wired gigabit connection from Xbox One S,
which was fast and responsive even with the Very
High quality setting.
It’s the little things
The remaining Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac
additions seem modest by comparison but are sure
to be appreciated in everyday use. If you prefer to
send emails using Outlook or Mail in Windows 10,
this task is easier than before thanks to share menu
support. Simply select Send with Windows Email
App from the macOS Finder contextual menu, which
opens a new compose window in your preferred
Windows email app with the attachment in place,
ready to complete; click Send, and you’re done.
If you’ve been frustrated by the inability to
drag and drop Mojave screenshot previews into a
Windows VM, I’m happy to report this feature has
also been added and works as seamlessly as one
might hope. That’s not all: You can drag and drop
images into Windows directly from Mac applications
like Photos and Safari, too. There’s also a new
option in the Actions menu that makes it easy to
upgrade older Windows VMs to the latest version
in just a few clicks. (Goodbye, Windows XP.)
Parallels also attempts to eliminate any
remaining confusion when users switch to
Coherence mode. If you recall, that’s the View
menu option where Windows apps seamlessly
coexist alongside native macOS apps in Finder,
rather than inside a separate VM window. In PD15,