Why Windows?

You answered your own question there. I have Windows XP in BootCamp just so I can play some older Windows games that I still enjoy.

 

Im a convert, and there is only one thing that I have not yet managed to do on a mac. That is digitally signing .EXE and .AIR files.
For that I use a very small windowsxp virtualbox machine, thats it.
Thinking about it, I can probably do .AIR apps now on mac too. So it's just the Windows .EXE files.

Other than that everything I do is Mac.

 

Probably because in alot of cases, windblows runs better on a mac than it does on a beige box peecee.

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I'm returning my iMac for a Windows today. I just don't want to run Bootcamp or pay for Parallel and most of the program I'll need for college is Windows based. I miss notepadd++ like crazy!!! I figure there's no point in running Windows on a Mac when I can get a Windows laptop for cheaper.

I love my iMac in the short time I had it and maybe I'll get it after I'm done with School.

 

I use windows purely for a couple of Apps required for work which are Windows only (mainly our accounts/payroll software).

I did use parallels for a while, but after a while I decided that I would rather not have windows on the machine, so I found an old Windows laptop and I use that instead. I also use remote desktop to work directly on our server.

I far prefer doing it this way, although it makes moving files around a bit harder (I have to use idisk to move files and obviously will have that change that soon).

If it wasn't for work then I could leave windows completely.

 

I'm running my windows out of VMWare Fusion. Very nice for the few thinks I would use. Maybe not for gaming but some stuff from the company is just fine. Not really often used though.
I also used it to install the Win8 preview or ML 10.8. I never used BootCamp and will not. Just VMWare. Is just too easy.

 

I run Windows 7 on VirtualBox. VB is free, and works well. I only use it for MS Project @ Work, so I need it for that only. If MS had a OSX Version, I'd never need it.

 

My next windows PC will be a game launcher for me, that's it. I used every Microsoft OS since DOS 5, but switched to OS X a couple years ago. Funny thing is it was kind of on accident. I just wanted to see what the programming environment was like.

Anyway, if you aren't a gamer or don't require anything that requires native video drivers under windows, then you can just toss it in a VM to launch EXEs. IMO, it's they best way to run windows anyway because you can bring some of the workflows over from OS X (if you set it up to share the mac filesystem).

 

There are plenty of replacements for Notepad++ on the Mac, Chocolate.app is in beta and that seems like a really nice text editor .

 

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My wife runs Windows in Vmware because her office uses a VPN client that is Windows only. She literally opens a full Windows session simply to browse office's network folders, and to copy the document she needs.

I only have Windows installed in Vmware so I can do tech support for my wife. The only time I fire it up is when I need to figure out something for her.

For everything else we are totally Windows-less. It was tougher for my wife because she came a Windows Corporate environment... but now she has no desire to return to Windows. I've never actually been in a Windows only environment - well, since Win 3.1. I went from DOS to (briefly) Win 3.1 to IBM's OS/2 (including eComStation) Apple's OS X 10.4.

So, I've never felt the transitionary angst of losing Windows' benefits.