For a while Par­al­lels have been push­ing their app for run­ning Win­dows XP on your intell Mac with­out hav­ing to reboot and go through the boot­camp pro­ce­dure. With their lat­est beta they seem to be tak­ing things a step fur­ther. Under coher­ence mode you can now run win­dows apps as if they were run­ning in OS X, ie. the win­dow just floats around the screen like an OS X app. Makes me want to try this out, just for the sheer fun and the fact I can run win­dows apps on my Mac. (via) more here.