Buy Parallels now and get one year free updates

Here's a holiday deal from the folk who brought you Parallels. If you buy Parallels by the 23rd of December, you qualify for free upgrades for a year. Here's how it works or at least, here's how it works according to the Parallels salesperson I talked to on the phone this afternoon.

You have to buy your copy either through the Parallels website itself or through one of their approved outlets like CDW. People like me who purchase from normal retail places (I bought mine from Amazon) are not qualified to get in on the deal.

When you buy your copy from the Parallels site (or approved outlet), you'll be sent a special key that will activate upgrades for the year. When upgrades are released, the software will autoupdate and activate those enhancements.

Parallels estimates this at a $50 value for a single upgrade, and more if they release more than one major upgrade throughout the year.