Beta Beat: Parallels puts beta 2 goodness in stockings

This is seriously good!

You have to see it to appreciate it so here is a short screencast:

http://one.revver.com/watch/126349/flv/affiliate/40963

All the updating means Windows and MS Office keep wanting to revalidate themselves.

Driving me nucking futs!

hot damn, they just keep making this thing better and better. I can't wait till i get a second gig of ram for my mbp so i can run windows all the time on my second monitor (don't worry, i'm a web developer, so i have to test in ie)

I like how going into Coherence mode slides the Windows desktop away like Leopard's Spaces. It makes me wonder if that is a hint that Parallels is planning some interesting integration features with Spaces?

My only complaint is the screen redraw when moving a window around in Coherence mode. I'm running on a MBP. I hope they can smooth that out a little.

It's really encouraging to see them add so many nice features and taking advantage of OS X.

Just updated my own install, and Boot Camp integration is working now -- was not with the previous build. W00t!

Yeah, OK... So I just re-regged with a different email address and the trial key they sent me worked.

They must have just re-sent the old key to my original email address. It seems to me they'd want to LOWER barriers to testing their software, but whatever...

I tried the previous beta and now, when I enter the new trial key I just requested, I get a message saying the triel key has expired. But I JUST requested that they send it to me JUST NOW.

WTF?! Do they not want me to test their software? How do I get around this? I tried uninstalling and then deleting any vestigal remnants but it still things the trial key is no good. Did I miss any config files? Little help please!

I am downloading the first beta (at a measly 15 kb/s) since this one doesn't work for me. All other versions did, but now I'm faced with a black screen and no way to install the Parallel Tools since I can't see where I have to click.

I had a suspended machine, it balked at that and then basically drove my machine into gay pride beach ball overkill.

Again, weird considering all previous Parallel upgrades and betas... but tread carefully.

Thanks for the mirror Dan, their site is totally dead for me.

I was thinking of purchasing Parallels tomorrow actually, so this is good news for me.