Year-old Parallels and VMware software won’t be updated for Windows 10

If you want to use Windows 10 on a Mac with either Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion, you’ll have to strongly consider buying a new version of your virtualization software of choice.

Parallels on Wednesday this week is releasing its latest upgrade, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac, for $79.99 per device (or $49.99 if you're upgrading from version 9 or 10). VMware should be following up soon with its next version, Fusion 8.

You may have spent money on either Parallels 10 or Fusion 7 just a year ago, but that year-old software will only provide bare-bones support for Windows 10, which Microsoft released last month.