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Windows XP on MB and MBP
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<blockquote data-quote="fleurya" data-source="post: 589447" data-attributes="member: 22866"><p>Are you in college? Does your school have academic license to sell Windows? If that's the case, just buy your own copies. Usually versions with multiple license means one user or family in the same household can install on multiple computer, but unrelated people can't share licenses from one purchase. Also, I don't think support for XP will probably not be dropped anytime soon as many people still use it and MS will soon release a new service pack for it. </p><p></p><p>I don't see any problem with installing Windows via Bootcamp and then running a virtual machine. At least then if in the future you need to run a program that takes a lot of system resources, you can easily run it in Bootcamp instead of running more slowly in virtual machine due to having to share the system resources with OS X. </p><p></p><p>Having said all that, I would also recommend you just get Office 2008 for Mac. It's fully compatible with Office 2007, save some very minor rendering differences. I prefer it because unlike Outlook, Microsoft's sister program for OS X, Entourage, comes with a very handy project organization function that I use to organize all my coursework, class schedule, class contacts, and so on. I also prefer the OS X layout of the Office programs better than the Office 2007 ribbon style layout.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fleurya, post: 589447, member: 22866"] Are you in college? Does your school have academic license to sell Windows? If that's the case, just buy your own copies. Usually versions with multiple license means one user or family in the same household can install on multiple computer, but unrelated people can't share licenses from one purchase. Also, I don't think support for XP will probably not be dropped anytime soon as many people still use it and MS will soon release a new service pack for it. I don't see any problem with installing Windows via Bootcamp and then running a virtual machine. At least then if in the future you need to run a program that takes a lot of system resources, you can easily run it in Bootcamp instead of running more slowly in virtual machine due to having to share the system resources with OS X. Having said all that, I would also recommend you just get Office 2008 for Mac. It's fully compatible with Office 2007, save some very minor rendering differences. I prefer it because unlike Outlook, Microsoft's sister program for OS X, Entourage, comes with a very handy project organization function that I use to organize all my coursework, class schedule, class contacts, and so on. I also prefer the OS X layout of the Office programs better than the Office 2007 ribbon style layout. [/QUOTE]
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