1) Full parallels tools support for all OS platforms that parallels claims to support. For instance, Parallels allowed me to install Windows 3.1 (using Parallels setting for 3.11), and Windows 98 SE, but it offers no driver support for Windows 3.1, and next to no support for 98. It also doesn't provide any support for seemless interaction between Windows and the host OS (seemless mouse transition, file sharing, full-screen with dynamic resolution auto-adjust, et al). Please add more robust support for these older platforms! 2) Parallels support for older versions of Mac OS, both Pre-OSX Power PC based platforms, and pre Power PC 68000 based platforms. There are people out there who still have games and in rarer cases, applications for those old platforms (as well as their PC counterparts discussed above) that they would still like to/need to run, plus in this age of retro, catering to the nostalgiac makes sense, does it not? There are emulators out there, but they are very cumbersome. If Parallels supported these older platforms and supported them to the extent that they supported Windows XP and Windows 7, then users such as myself would find setup a breeze and use thereafter a delight! Please add the old Power PC and pre-Power PC platforms to your repertoire! It's too important a feature to ignore! 3) Better interaction with Spaces. a) As it stands now, I can have the host OS in one space, and then all of my virtual machines in another space (since spaces recognizes them all as just one program-parallels, you can only assign parallels to a space, as opposed to assigning, say, Windows 7 to a space, and Windows XP to a different space, and linux, and so on and so forth, each with their own spaces. Now, I recognize that Parallels as a company, or as a programmer is not likely going to be able to have any influence on how Apple's app, spaces works. But be that so, other alternatives, such as treating each VM as its own program for spaces to interact with separately, or else developing a "spaces" of their own would each be lovely ways around the limitations of Apples app. b) Even with spaces commanded to open only in space 2, there will be times where certain VMs will open in space 1 instead (for instance, Windows 7, XP, and 3.1 open in space 2, but 98 opens in space 1), and furthermore, things that are not supposed to open in space 2 will open in space 2 anyhow, such as the occasional unwanted visit from Mac itunes (even though I made it a point to "un-select" the check box that tells apps to open in whatever space there are open windows.) Now I suspect that the issues brought up in 3b (the above paragraph) have more to do with Spaces itself and little to nothing to do with Parallels per se. If that is correct, ignore 3b, but please do not ignore what's in 1,2, and 3a. Outside of these gripes and petitions, I love Parallels, and have no plans to go anywhere soon. Keep up the good work, Parallels, and I hope to see these additions in future versions or on-line updates! God Bless! -John Wedgeworth (both a possessor of old apps/games I'd like to use as well as simply nostalgic for the old OS' themselves)
