Using Windows software on a Mac is as simple as installing one of three tools: Nova Development’s Parallels, VMWare’s Fusion, or Apple’s Boot Camp. But of these three, only Parallels and Fusion supply the essential anti-viral component that every Windows installation requires.
This month I’ve installed the latest Version 5 of Parallels, as well as a [...]

Any company using Macs in a world full of Windows users needs a virtualization program. You get Windows running on your Mac, so you can make sense of that fussy Web site that won’t behave well enough to run correctly on a Mac, for example. Parallels launched this kind of product, but the much-larger VMWare [...]

The price tags did not rise, but Mac features advanced this week. Is this a way of discounting Macs? Maybe more to the point, can a small business owner or an independent Mac user call his computers inexpensive? I had a chat with a longtime Mac owner this week who doesn’t think so, but still [...]

At times, Microsoft and Apple have been at each other’s throats during the past 25 years, jousting for the position of Most Innovative Computer supplier. Even though Google has eclipsed both companies in hubris aimed at that title, over the years small business users had to make a hard choice over and over: Windows for [...]