monline

I tried to play a MOV file in Windows Media Player 11 inside a Parallels Desktop virtual machince. DirectX support was enabled, but didn't help much. Once WMP11 started everything went crazy. It looked like WMP tried to switch to full-screen mode, but failed and various windows flashed in and out on the screen. I could somehow stop it and the virtual machine got suspended. It started all over again, when I resumed the vm session. Finally Windows crashed with a BSOD and I was quite thankful that the Mac OS X did not crash too. Parallels Desktop 3.0 definitely needs a lot of polishing til it's "production ready". You should not be fooled by a "final release" ... this is very much a beta, just with a stamp of Parallels' marketing as being the "final", production version. You should wait a couple of bugfix releases before you decide to invest money in this new version.