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<blockquote data-quote="cbavol" data-source="post: 1488499" data-attributes="member: 290822">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 &quot;go to&quot; travel computer for personal and office use.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; That means being able to operate the Office suite of products (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Access).&nbsp; We run Windows XP Professional on our office computers and server.I have read much of what has been posted on &quot;A Switcher's Guide&quot; with great interest, and found it helpful.&nbsp; I may have missed a thread that addresses my particular question, however, and that is:&nbsp; 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?&nbsp; If this has been already addressed on the Blog someplace, I would greatly appreciate being directed to that thread.&nbsp; I just haven't been able to find anything on this.&nbsp; Otherwise, I look forward to hearing from someone on the advantages/disadvantages, etc.&nbsp; Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cbavol, post: 1488499, member: 290822"] [b]Boot Camp Solution vs. Office Suite for Mac?[/b] 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! [/QUOTE]

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