Boot Camp Solution vs. Office Suite for Mac?
I'm a new Forum member and new to the Mac family. I received a Macbook Pro w. retina display (15.4/2.6GHz/8GB/512GB Flash Storage) for Christmas and intend this to be my "go to" travel computer for personal and office use. The problem is that my business has operated in a Windows environment for 25 years, and for those business needs, I will have to be able to work well and remotely link into our office files and file server that is all in a Windows environment. That means being able to operate the Office suite of products (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Access). We run Windows XP Professional on our office computers and server.
I have read much of what has been posted on "A Switcher's Guide" with great interest, and found it helpful. I may have missed a thread that addresses my particular question, however, and that is: With the obvious disadvantage of installing Boot Camp to run in the Windows environment (to me, that is having to shut down and re-boot when switching OS's), why not just install the latest Microsoft Office for Mac on my Macbook?
If this has been already addressed on the Blog someplace, I would greatly appreciate being directed to that thread. I just haven't been able to find anything on this. Otherwise, I look forward to hearing from someone on the advantages/disadvantages, etc. Thanks!