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Originally Posted by JavaBrewer View Post
VMWare Fusion. Run those apps in Windows right on your Mac desktop. You can even drag and drop between operating systems. Virtualization and cloud is the future. Creating a Windows VM (virtual machine) is dead easy and quick. Copy the original (or take a snapshot) and if something goes wrong (virus) you toss it and start with the original. You can manually copy the VM (files) or take what in virtualization world is called a "snapshot". No more problems.
Great product. Love the Appliance library.

Anyone that wants to try out VM's or alternate operating systems should grab VirtualBox from SUN/Oracle.

https://www.virtualbox.org/

Not as full featured as Fusion but it's free and a great primer on what you can do with VM's.
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