Macs in the Business World

Hello all. New to the forum here, but I am going to be a sophomore finance major this fall and want to make the switch to Mac by buying a MacBook (most likely the base model). My question is, will I have trouble using a Mac in the business environment? I know that Macs are not used much in big business today, so I am wondering if compatibility problems will be and issue and if I will have trouble running finicial software on my Mac. Beyond schoolwork I will be using the MacBook for mp3s, photos, and internet.
Any help would be great. Thanks!

Hi jts5032, welcome to the Discussion!
While I cannot comment on how the state of the computers are in your part of the world, in terms of in the "business working environment", but over here in my country, where it is considered "technologically highly advance", Microsoft, Windows and PCs still rule most part of the business world... especially when in large companies where all the emails etc are tied to the company servers etc, even the IT tech supports probably stuided everything that is to it - PCs and not macs.
I have only heard of very few companies here, and they are mostly small-scale like 10 to 30 employess, heard about one law firm, just because the boss is a mac user, that the whole firm uses Macs. As for the rest, you can only find Macs populating the advertising, creative and media industry, and they are only found in the creative departments.
Like me, I am in a media company and I work in the on-air creative dept, so I use a Mac, but because my IT tech support know nothing about Macs, they cannot and do not support, and also because of many incompatibilities with the server, my Mac's email, my office email, is still on a POP account, and there are many intranet sites I cannot access, and I still need a PC to access our Staff site for leave application etc.
This is what I can tell you about the "reality" in my part of the world, cheers

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