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Posted By: renee In Response To: What about software? (Louise)
Sunday, 8 January 2006, at 11:40 a.m.
i began using a mac over 20 years ago, and have since, albeit begrudgingly, moved almost exclusively to pc's due to my need for very robust trading platforms and realtime charting services.
i can't imagine having difficulty opening emails from pc users, unless you use a non-standard email client. i exchange email and attachments with mac users everyday with no difficulties. provided you install a pdf reader, a png/jpg/gif viewer and a zip utility you should be fine for most common formats. also, all ms office documents should translate easily. years ago it was not so simple, but now it's quite seamless. you will, however, encounter trouble if the attachments are specific to a specialized peice of development or design software, such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash (non-swf), etc. but most of these programs will export to the more common attachmeht formats mentioned previously for simple viewing.
and yes, you will have to start over on your software collection.
if you decide to just protect your pc better from virii, trojans etc, i would recommend losing ms outlook and opting for a mozilla email client instead. then install Zone Alarm Pro and set it to the maximum security level you can tolerate, as well as NoAdware and updated versions of Spybot and Adaware. Spybot and Adaware are free, but you should run them frequently.
hth,
renee
> Are you ready to buy new software? Will you be able
> to open e-mails from PC users - at least 80% of America
> and 99% of businesses use PCs. Are you going to
> be sending documents to PC users?
> My mother has latest desktop Mac and had to buy additional
> software to be able to open e-mail attachments from
> her children, who all have PCs. Her operating system
> is called Panther.
> I agree that virus and worms don't seem to be a problem
> with Macs. Whether that is something in the operating system
> or just that hackers haven't targeted Macs yet
> is something Mel may answer.
> I don't know what brand of laptop you have but I've
> been pleased with Toshiba and Dell. I haven't
> experienced problems with either (one is from
> work and the other is personal).
> Hope you consider who you will communicate with
> as well as what you might like before
> making a decision. Good luck.
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