Well, I hope you're not referring to my post, since that would be a strange comparison. I can't tell, though, since you didn't say what you found to be reminiscent of door-slamming. Again, it was a measured post with a factual list of problems, and I even gave the product credit for being impressive. So trying to trump it up into some kind of tirade doesn't hold water and doesn't make sense.
It's typical in any forum for some people to blame the problem-reporters for the problems. Not sure where that comes from, except perhaps from a form of cognitive dissonance: "Well I've chosen this product, so if this guy comes along and shows that it's flawed, then I've chosen poorly and I feel dumb. So I'll attack this guy instead and make it his fault." You see it all the time, with whiners jumping in as quickly as they can, saying, "Troll! Troll!" when in fact, they're the trolls. Why else would they so grossly mischaracterize the original post? It's a story as old as humanity: Kill the messenger.
Anyway, thanks for providing some attempt at constructive feedback. However, the product evidently doesn't "work for the rest of us"; you can see that in the numerous posts about problems resulting from recent updates. As far as "learning from our mistakes" goes, I ask: What mistakes? If someone actually pointed out legitimate mistakes for those of us reporting problems, THAT would be constructive.
My installation is recent and clean. I tried updating. I tried removing Parallels entirely (including the use of the removal shell script) and reinstalling. I tried removing Parallels Tools with the Windows Control Panel. The only thing I didn't do was reinstall Windows and all my applications, because doing so after each update just isn't a reasonable requirement for a shipping product.
Last edited: Mar 16, 2007