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Mac OS® X Lion™ in Depth, Second Edition
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Mac OS® X Lion™ in Depth, Second Edition

by Robyn Ness
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 12m
English
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25. Running Windows on Your Mac

Over the past few years, the Macintosh has risen in popularity among both home and business users. Applications that, for a long time, have been PC-only (such as Outlook and AutoCAD) are finding their way back to the Mac. And, unlike the early years of incompatibility, it is easy to integrate Mac OS X Lion into a Windows network. On top of all that, the Mac’s capability to actually run Windows applications is just another reason to love Mac OS X’s versatility.

Choosing How to Run Windows on a Mac

Despite the Mac’s power and range of software, there are still quite a few reasons that you might need to run Windows:

No Mac version of the software you need—Windows has by far the largest collection of desktop applications. ...

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