Mac Owners... VMware Fusion

[john]

^^^ +1

I am not a huge fan of macs mostly due to the eliminations of shortcuts in MS Excel. They may have fixed these but IDK. I was in class with a kid one time who had a new mac laptop but used MS office apps on his old windows unit. Maybe something about not having a Ctrl key which is used with most shortcuts. If you are going for a business degree, buy a PC.

Software at the U of M is free to download (07 office "best edition", Vista enterprise, etc). I paid an additional $5 for a burned copy though. They include the licence numbers, etc.

[Tachyon]

I think you'll be pleased with the product. We run VMware on some of the Macs here at work. For what it is, it works very well and required virtually zero configuration out of the 'box' to work with our office.

Yea there is Office for Mac, but I would rip my eyeballs out if I was forced to use Entourage! Just rubbish compared to Outlook...

[hellomynameis]

Originally Posted by john

^^^ +1

I am not a huge fan of macs mostly due to the eliminations of shortcuts in MS Excel. They may have fixed these but IDK. I was in class with a kid one time who had a new mac laptop but used MS office apps on his old windows unit. Maybe something about not having a Ctrl key which is used with most shortcuts. If you are going for a business degree, buy a PC.

What? Now shortcuts? No control key? What in the world are you talking about?

I use a mac keyboard on my windows desktop at work. Works perfectly...control key and all.


Use Google docs for an office suite, it's free, your documents are available anywhere an internet connection is, and it's at least as featured packed as most people will ever need. Throw in Mellel and bookends for some nice word processing and and you're set.