And good luck if you re-install more than five times (on the same hardware, no less). "Too many activations. You must purchase another license." I called, they 'reset the counter', giving me five more activations. Called. "I see we've already reset the activation counter..." "Yes?" "Hmm..."

Never mind - I'll buy Fusion.

Parallels is riddled with advertising.

FWIW, I think they've gotten better in the last release or two.

My sincere hope, if Fusion is going to go away, is that Parallels will have an influx of customers and not be forced into doing silly advertising/bundling things to maintain their revenue.

I have always preferred Parallels and every time I evaluate the two, Parallels integrates better and performs better.

Like for other products? I've never seen an ad in parallels and have been using it since it first came out.

In my experience (I left Mac over a year ago, so it may be out of date), Parallels has always felt a little faster than Fusion on Mac when running Windows, especially if you were running games.