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<blockquote data-quote="Kuwisdelu" data-source="post: 577303" data-attributes="member: 44361"><p>Here's my two suggestions:</p><p></p><p>1) Don't bother running MS Office in Windows if that's all you'll be needing it for. Like Neo said, NeoOffice is a great free, open-source office program for Mac. It's based on OpenOffice.org, but it's a native Mac OS X application. It's very, very similar to MS Office 2003/4, in my opinion, so there wouldn't be too much learning curve. The differences--during my use, at least--are pretty small. It completely supports Word .doc files as well as the new .docx files of the new MS Office 2007/8.</p><p></p><p>2) If you still need to run Windows whether for Office, if you don't take my suggestion, or for any other programs you might need, I suggest VMWare Fusion. I use it to run some statistics software that isn't developed for Mac anymore, and I've never had any trouble with it. It's very stable and runs fast right beside OS X. Parallels has been out longer for Mac, but VMWare has been in the virtual machine business for years and years (forever, basically) and has tons of support. I haven't needed to use them, but if running into problems is a worry, I hear they have good forums and other resources for such things. Its Unity feature is great when you want to integrate your Windows programs into OS X, and I love that I can suspend my virtual machine and come back right where I left off when I open the program again in just a few seconds. So if you still need Windows, I suggest Fusion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kuwisdelu, post: 577303, member: 44361"] Here's my two suggestions: 1) Don't bother running MS Office in Windows if that's all you'll be needing it for. Like Neo said, NeoOffice is a great free, open-source office program for Mac. It's based on OpenOffice.org, but it's a native Mac OS X application. It's very, very similar to MS Office 2003/4, in my opinion, so there wouldn't be too much learning curve. The differences--during my use, at least--are pretty small. It completely supports Word .doc files as well as the new .docx files of the new MS Office 2007/8. 2) If you still need to run Windows whether for Office, if you don't take my suggestion, or for any other programs you might need, I suggest VMWare Fusion. I use it to run some statistics software that isn't developed for Mac anymore, and I've never had any trouble with it. It's very stable and runs fast right beside OS X. Parallels has been out longer for Mac, but VMWare has been in the virtual machine business for years and years (forever, basically) and has tons of support. I haven't needed to use them, but if running into problems is a worry, I hear they have good forums and other resources for such things. Its Unity feature is great when you want to integrate your Windows programs into OS X, and I love that I can suspend my virtual machine and come back right where I left off when I open the program again in just a few seconds. So if you still need Windows, I suggest Fusion. [/QUOTE]
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