- if your dog has just died; and,
- if you've just had root-canal work; and,
- you're about to fly overseas and want to give a presentation developed using the expensive and esoteric piece of Windows-based software you had us buy for your work computer; and,
- you've just gone and bought yourself a new Mac laptop especially for the trip...
(And if you really must call to recite your catalogue of woe, please present it an appropriate format - a nice, blues number by John Lee Hooker, for instance.
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I have a client whose employees spend a major amount of their day using accounting software that is probably not as fast as its name implies. It is a windows only product. For reasons I don't quite fathom, all employees use Macbooks. Periodically they call me up and ask me to set up a new computer. I always ask them if they have purchased the virtual Windows app and a Windows license. And I always then find them the appropriate info so we can order up those two items. When they finally ship I set up the new computer. I think this has happened four or five times. Maybe it means the virtual Windows app is so seamless they don't notice they all use it, but somehow I doubt that's the case.
And I once had a different client who called wanting to install VMWare and Windows on her Macbook at that moment. She was traveling...and calling from a bar. She didn't have the correct service pack version of the XP install disk with her. I sent her some lengthy email about the setup process, but it didn't get installed that night.
Anyway, your client reminds me of my clients.
Sorry mate, I fail to embrace the vendor-based bigotry. We all use Intel chips now. The (myOS>yourOS) thing means a lot less in a virtualized environment.
I'm a computer scientist, not a vendor fanboy. I don't care what you use, provided it Works.
That being said, VMWare & Parallels are suitable environments for running your platform-specific software. You will need those pesky overpriced licenses but I daresay of those in your office, you at least have a handle on that.
The likes of Ted and La Mondaine however.... -=shudder/=-
gregor42: I really don't mind what computers staff and clients use, as long they'll do the job ... and unfortunately for the Macs, in our environment they often won't without a lot of support, tinkering and extra software. It's the lack of forethought more than anything else that irritates me.
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