Project and Visio on a Mac
Discussion
Company I work for has a BYOD policy. I have used macs for years and would like to continue to do so. The problem is that it will be required to run project and visio. Now as you are all probably aware these are not available for the Mac. Now I know there are programmes that do similar but this is non negotiable it has to be the MS versions as absolute compatibility is required no arguments.
So, aside from portioning the HD and running Windows on part of it I understand there are “packaging programmes” such as Wine that allow you, allegedly, to run Windows programmes in the Mac environment
Anyone using anything like this and does it work seamlessly?
So, aside from portioning the HD and running Windows on part of it I understand there are “packaging programmes” such as Wine that allow you, allegedly, to run Windows programmes in the Mac environment
Anyone using anything like this and does it work seamlessly?
I use Parallels Desktop on my Macbook Pro. This offers pretty much seamless integration into the OSX desktop.
plasticpig said:
I use Parallels Desktop on my Macbook Pro. This offers pretty much seamless integration into the OSX desktop.
Isn’t that basically opening up windows within a window though? The stuff I have seen like Wine appears to package the application so it runs from OSX as if it is native This is what I was looking at
https://www.winehq.org
Edited by craigjm on Friday 8th February 08:07
plasticpig said:
Windows application appear in the dock and can run in full screen mode. You can hide the windows desktop so it's seamless.
Do you need to have a Windows licence? I have watched a couple of their demos online and it would appear you could have project and Visio in your dock and you only see windows when you click on them to start up. What happens if you click a Visio or project file in your documents? Does it refuse to open or does it know it’s associaged with parallels? Are there any performance issues? Have you noticed any glitches?
Looks a bit less complicated than wine
craigjm said:
Do you need to have a Windows licence? I have watched a couple of their demos online and it would appear you could have project and Visio in your dock and you only see windows when you click on them to start up. What happens if you click a Visio or project file in your documents? Does it refuse to open or does it know it’s associaged with parallels?
Are there any performance issues? Have you noticed any glitches?
Looks a bit less complicated than wine
You can associate a file extension to a windows application. You do need a Windows licence.Are there any performance issues? Have you noticed any glitches?
Looks a bit less complicated than wine
craigjm said:
Buffalo said:
I use omniplan and omnigraffle on my Macs and have zero compatibility issues with ms Visio & project. They're not expensive and very impressive, worth a try?
Nope. That’s why I made that clear in my first post. 
(Same stipulation with some of my clients but we use them and they are none the wiser).For Windows based programs I use VMware Fusion. I found it superior to parallels, particularly if the program demands a lot of performance, as you can customise the VM environment more.
Edited by Buffalo on Friday 8th February 22:03
OK so If finally done this and got them both running in parallels and it works great. I have the icons in the dock and they launch pretty much like a Mac programme and I can click on. File and it will open straight away.
Two questions
There is a parallels icon in the dock which is an iMac screen with the two red vertical lines. Is there a way of removing this from the dock as I will never use it
The icons for project and Visio have the parallels red lines on them. Is there a way of replacing them with the originals with no lines?
Two questions
There is a parallels icon in the dock which is an iMac screen with the two red vertical lines. Is there a way of removing this from the dock as I will never use it
The icons for project and Visio have the parallels red lines on them. Is there a way of replacing them with the originals with no lines?
craigjm said:
Haha I’m not a Mac newbie I’ve had them for about 15 years so tried that but it doesn’t work it just springs back and doesn’t go anywhere if you select remove from dock
Not used it myself but most apps with this behaviour will have an option in the settings that lets you move it to the menu bar rather than persistently sitting in the dock. mmm-five said:
If Parallels is running, then it will always show in the dock (unless the app offers an option to have it running in the background with just a small menu bar icon).
If it's not running, then you can drag (& hold it out of the dock for a couple of seconds) to remove the icon.
Yeah that’s right but the problem I have is that when it’s not running it remains in the dock even though keep in dock is not ticked and when you drag it to the bin it just bounces out and goes back to the dock If it's not running, then you can drag (& hold it out of the dock for a couple of seconds) to remove the icon.
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