Going back to the dark side :(
Hi,
Can anyone clarify for me - I have been asked to work with a software that requires me to install Windows and Powerpoint on my mac book pro.
Much rather work with keynote but hey ho. I will be transferring and uploading data to the web and my main concern (and think I know the answer) is; will running windows leave my mac drive susceptible to all the crap and hazard that is associated with using MS?
Any advice greatly appreciated
The pending inquiry of the OP, asks if there is a proprietary need to
be running a different software at the company level not available in
a Mac OS X supported build; since MS Office for Mac is available
at affordable cost, if that were the only matter at hand. As stated:
"...asked to work +with a software that requires+ me to install Windows and Powerpoint ..."
However, since the cause of the necessity was not spelled out, I
could only ask. Yet, if someone only needed to open presentation
apps and some other office-like documents, make changes and
then forward them back to another person, one could get & try...
• Neo Office: (a full-featured set of office applications for OS X)
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
There are some versions of MS Office that do not fully translate
to other versions, so file problems could arise in some instances
when not using the same MS Office suite as the authorship of
a document was created in. Some features of MS Office for Win
not carried over into OS X versions directly, so translations of
them could be problematic, even with OpenOffice or NeoOffice.
There may be adequate abilities in some of the iWorks apps
and other Apple software to do the job, if other company SW
is not required by the management to perform business tasks.
However that may be, the reason for running Windows, was not
explicitly given and so I inquired about it, in the previous post.
Good luck & happy computing!
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