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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2005Installing Windows applications in Virtual PC 7
Turbo Tax puts out a program called "ItsDeductible," but it's Windows only. It is potentially useful enough to us that I'm considering buying Virtual PC to run it. I wrote Turbo Tax to ask whether it would work with Virtual PC and received an equivocal response. I write from complete ignorance: I've never tried to install software on a PC (as opposed to a mac) or install software using Virtual PC. Can anyone tell me whether it's possible to Windows software on a mac and use it with Virtual PC, and if so, whether most Windows applications work with Virtual PC and how difficult it is to install them? Most PC software will work fine, especially business software. Windows software is no harder or easier to install than Mac software.  SignatureColin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) > Turbo Tax puts out a program called "ItsDeductible," but it's Windows > only. It is potentially useful enough to us that I'm considering buying [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > use it with Virtual PC, and if so, whether most Windows applications > work with Virtual PC and how difficult it is to install them? > Most PC software will work fine, especially business software. Windows > software is no harder or easier to install than Mac software. I have to say I find mac installs are generally easier; dragging a folder from the CD to the application folder on my ibook is much easier than playing "20 questions" with a windows install wizard, imho. Well, cheerlead if you like. I use both. Windows runs on a much wider variety of hardware and that is taken into account quite easily. SignatureColin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) >> Most PC software will work fine, especially business software. Windows >> software is no harder or easier to install than Mac software. > > I have to say I find mac installs are generally easier; dragging a folder > from the CD to the application folder on my ibook is much easier than > playing "20 questions" with a windows install wizard, imho. > Well, cheerlead if you like. I use both. Windows runs on a much wider > variety of hardware and that is taken into account quite easily. I have to agree with Robert on this one. Most DOS installs were easier than Windows installs. And if you take into consideration that Windows likes to put files in directories all over your HD it complicates matters even further. Bill > Well, cheerlead if you like. I use both. Windows runs on a much > wider variety of hardware and that is taken into account quite easily. I use both too Colin. And mac installs are generally easier *for me*. Though lately i've noticed a trend towards those install wizards on mac software, which is a shame as they generally take longer to install software than the usual method. It seems a shame the mac is heading towards Windows in this regard, rather than the other way around. > > Well, cheerlead if you like. I use both. Windows runs on a much > > wider variety of hardware and that is taken into account quite easily. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > usual method. It seems a shame the mac is heading towards Windows in this > regard, rather than the other way around. For a long time I've said Apple has in various ways been becoming more and more Microsoft-like. :o( Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) Meanwhile, Windows developers will soon be using oneclick. Strange. SignatureColin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) >> Well, cheerlead if you like. I use both. Windows runs on a much >> wider variety of hardware and that is taken into account quite easily. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > software than the usual method. It seems a shame the mac is heading > towards Windows in this regard, rather than the other way around. >Turbo Tax puts out a program called "ItsDeductible," but it's Windows >only. It is potentially useful enough to us that I'm considering buying [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >use it with Virtual PC, and if so, whether most Windows applications >work with Virtual PC and how difficult it is to install them? Intuit has a fairly bad track record with VPC. About 2 years ago they 'fixed' Turbo Tax to prevent it from running under VPC, Connectix released a patch to work around it. That and their ill-fated activation/licensing schemes for TurboTax made me drop all of Intuit's products and move to alternatives. SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP Website: http://www.essjae.com "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. I am not am employee of Microsoft." Thanks to both of you for your input! Beware! Although most Windows programs run fairly well on VPC7, most games that require anything more than have more than basic VGA or SVGA video requirements most likely will not work via VPC7. This means that any video game or simulator that requires any of the latest video cards or 3D video will be DOA on VPC7. They will install fine, it's just that when you try to launch them, you will most likely get an error message telling you that you need to upgrade your computer's video driver or run hardware accelerator, neither of which can be done on VPC7, sad to say. |
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