I filed a support request and had a technician log into my machine to try to troubleshoot. Beyond realizing that Parallels tech support don't understand their own software, after 2 hours of trying to "solve" the issue, the technician finally said that it is not possible to launch applications via aliases in the dock and have it obey the startup view preference set in the configuration. It will always launch in Coherence mode. This is completely unacceptable. Parallels should obey the preference set in the configuration. This is especially important because the Coherence mode for Windows 8 is so broken it makes using Metro apps in Coherence mode unusable.
Last edited: May 13, 2013