What do you use Windows on your OS X for?

[ucsdmac]

I have VMware fusion running XP Pro on my MBP and here are the only 2 reasons I have used it so far:
1. OneNote: since I'm a student and OneNote makes it really easy to take notes and I have not yet found a similar program for OS X
2. give help to my friends who are running windows. I'm the most technologically aware of the bunch, so when I get questions on how to do little miscellaneous things I turn on my windows.

what about you guys/gals?

 

[dukebound85]

there have been threads on this

i suggest searching

 

[Santa Rosa]

Use it in bootcamp to run engineering programs that aren't available on Mac unfortunately and also to help others, gives me something to refer to when people are phoning me left right and centre for advice and help!!!

 

[Eraserhead]

1. OneNote: since I'm a student and OneNote makes it really easy to take notes and I have not yet found a similar program for OS X

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/

 

[zephead]

PokerStars, baby.

And basically anything else that I might need to use Windows for. But mostly I just like knowing that it's there and that my 'book is compatible with 99% of all software out there.

 

[Neil321]

To earn a crust

 

[colincarter]

picturestoexe and proshow producer

these 2 slideshow programs are the best in the business

 

[northy124]

To get my daily fix of Viruses.

 

[riscy]

What do you use Windows on your OS X for?

As little as possible

 

[MacHiavelli]

Most of my clients want Windows Office. And we also run MS Access databases. For work, Windows is still king.

 

[erickkoch]

I need Windows to use Citrix to access an application at work from my home. Other than that I would have little or no use for it.

 

[killmoms]

Exact Audio Copy.

And my BootCamp partition for games.

 

[flopticalcube]

Sonicstage for my Sony Walkman.

 

[kgarner]

I need Windows to use Citrix to access an application at work from my home. Other than that I would have little or no use for it.

Isn't there a Citrix client for OS X? I haven't used it in years, but I have run Citrix from my Mac to run Windows apps at school.

 

[ksmith80209]

To access QuickBooks Online.

 

[miniConvert]

Sage They're big enough and rich enough to make Mac versions of their software, but oh no.

 

[sunfast]

I run parallels on my MacBook as coherence is brilliant. Makes using windows rather painless.

Anyway, I use it for the VPN at work, some microsoft IDEs, some obscure radiation measurement software and for my really old pc games.

So basically stuff I can't do on OS X

 

[xUKHCx]

EAC

Office - I need .docx support at the moment and 08 is utter tripe and I am not going to use some converters to change the file format everytime and deal with all the problems therein.

Fluent

Quite a few other programs that link to lab machines that don't have mac counterparts.

 

[jbcandkc]

I don't use it at all, but my wife is a Realtor and she uses it to log onto her Multiple Listing Service website and runs an app that handles all the contracts and forms she uses.

 

[Mac In School]

Exact Audio Copy

MP3Gain

Random Password Generator Pro (wish I could find something like this for Mac)

A few custom Winblows apps I had written for me a few years ago.

 

[Diaresi]

Bootcamp for:

F95 IDE for programming in my degree
Playstation Store
MSN Messenger Audio/Webcam
Paint.NET
Having slides in Powerpoint display correctly (Office 2008 is ANNOYING me!)
Generally keeping my sanity when OS X doesn't work how I want it

 

[AJsAWiz]

Stupid games (really stupid) that aren't available on the Mac platform. I guess that's why they weren't developed for Mac OS

 

[Chafka]

Cod4

 

[kuwisdelu]

SAS (statistical software)

I need it for class, and my future job.

*anger*

They used to support Mac OS....why not more??

 

[GSMiller]

Microsoft Access and Publisher, for my classes. That's about it.