I’ve been using Parallels for a few weeks now running Windows XP and am amazed at how well it works. In the latest release candidate, they’ve cleaned up a bunch of things, but stil seem to be missing some very obvious user interface issues, most likely caused by the cross platform libraries they’re using or something like that. If you look at the screenshot below you can see that the popup button definitely doesn’t look right.

Is it so hard to fix this? I hope that it’s cleaned up for the final release. Furthermore, the popup isn’t a true popup button. Popups in OS X show the menu in line with the button. The image below clearly shows that this isn’t a true popup button.

I think that the engineers working on Parallels are stellar at doing the low level stuff, but it looks like they need a bit of help with the user interface. (I’m available for contract work, if they need help ).