Will give credit where credit is due; 4.0 working better

Don't know why and I'm not completely persuaded, but my lastest installation is going well. A little bit slow at shut down, weird shut down crackling noise, but if these guys can work out the bugs, they'll have a great product. The roll-out has been less than ideal and I'll wait to see what happens but on my Wintel XP Pro SP3 w/ Office 2007 and specialized programs, it worked well after intial installation (though there are still a few issues w/ installation).

 

My 4.0 installation took a long time, but was virtually problem free - I received an "unable to convert Virtual Machine" error but the installation completed, started, loaded Parallels Tools, and ran without error. I just completed two full days of work in Parallels - pushing Vista pretty hard with Outlook, multiple Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, Powerpoint and Adobe PDF docs running simultaneously in Coherence mode alongside Safari and Omnigraffle in Mac OSX. All I can say is wow! Each app performed nimbly and felt as if they were all running natively. Not a single hiccup. I am very pleased with this upgrade.