By entering the Promotion entrants will be deemed to have read and accepted these terms and conditions. The £40 .uk digital gift card giveaway (“Promotion”) is subject to the following terms and conditions.This makes sense to me since VMware does tend to make their product announcements around the time of their VMworld conference, and also tends to release Fusion and Workstation at the same time. They've hinted at a Fusion release later this year. I would be surprised if VMware announces anything at WWDC other than a demonstration and updated Tech Preview. I get it if they're trying to time things for WWDC and blunt any potential product announcements from VMware. They did release Parallels 17 in August last year, so they might be thinking of a Parallels 18 release in the not too distant future. With electronic distribution, it's not like they have to burn down inventory of physical media.

I'm not so sure about burning down the current version. It's also an old trick to offer discounts at the end of the quarter to boost the numbers any way they can. If they still maintain that fiscal year after going private, that would make May 31 the end of the second fiscal quarter. The old public Corel - that owns Parallels right now - had a fiscal year that ended in November. I'm personally leery of offers that say 'buy now, this deal goes away soon'. If they don't give you an answer, be very suspect that the deal might lock you into a Parallels 17 one-time license. You'd have to ask them if they're going to announce something at WWDC and offer the same deal. If you purchased Parallels 16 one-time licenses in August or September 2021, you'd get a free upgrade to Parallels 17. With any Parallels subscription, if you stop paying for it, Parallels stops running and your VMs are useless. Professional edition is only a subscription. The license is only good on 1 Mac (at least VMware offers their personal use license that can be obtained for non-commercial user for as many Macs as you own. Standard edition only lets you create a VM of 4vCPU and 8 GB of memory.

Standard edition has two options - a one-time purchase with no upgrade options for $99.99 USD, or a subscription for $6.66 per month (79.99 per year). Read the fine print about what version they're asking you to buy for that 30% off.

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