Comments on: Mac Monday: Virtualization Gone Wild http://blog.5min.com/2009/03/02/mac-monday-virtualization-gone-wild/ Behind the scenes (and in front of them) at 5min Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:56:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mac Monday: Virtualization Gone Wild | Mac Affinity http://blog.5min.com/2009/03/02/mac-monday-virtualization-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Mac Monday: Virtualization Gone Wild | Mac Affinity Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:30:22 +0000 http://blog.5min.com/?p=964#comment-317 [...] Read the rest here: Mac Monday: Virtualization Gone Wild [...] [...] Read the rest here: Mac Monday: Virtualization Gone Wild [...]

]]> By: Ealeal http://blog.5min.com/2009/03/02/mac-monday-virtualization-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Ealeal Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:57:43 +0000 http://blog.5min.com/?p=964#comment-316 Shay - If it isn't apparent from spending a large portion of the day hearing me gripe about using Windows from the next room over, let me tell ya - I have run out of alternatives. :) Shay -
If it isn’t apparent from spending a large portion of the day hearing me gripe about using Windows from the next room over, let me tell ya – I have run out of alternatives. :)

]]> By: Shay http://blog.5min.com/2009/03/02/mac-monday-virtualization-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Shay Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:35:45 +0000 http://blog.5min.com/?p=964#comment-315 Might be worth mentioning that for most of the planet who do not need to type and read Right-to-Left and with horribly odd characters, Microsoft Office for Mac is brilliant, as well as Apple's own iWork. The rest of the planet also probably lives in countries where large consumer or government sites are not designed solely with support for IE6 on a Windows XP machine in mind, so even the browser issue goes away. In short, for most people, it's worth looking for the Mac-native solution rather than run a virtual machine. It's not only Microsoft; Many professional software suites nowadays have Mac-native versions. There's SPSS for Mac, Matlab for Mac, obviously Photoshop and Final Cut, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. VM is only recommended when you've run out of alternatives. Might be worth mentioning that for most of the planet who do not need to type and read Right-to-Left and with horribly odd characters, Microsoft Office for Mac is brilliant, as well as Apple’s own iWork.

The rest of the planet also probably lives in countries where large consumer or government sites are not designed solely with support for IE6 on a Windows XP machine in mind, so even the browser issue goes away.

In short, for most people, it’s worth looking for the Mac-native solution rather than run a virtual machine.
It’s not only Microsoft; Many professional software suites nowadays have Mac-native versions. There’s SPSS for Mac, Matlab for Mac, obviously Photoshop and Final Cut, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. VM is only recommended when you’ve run out of alternatives.

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