There are, however, a few ways to boost the seamlessness of working across both Mac and Windows. Parallels boosts compatibility across platforms and the experience is relatively seamless. In Coherence Mode, Parallels effectively treats Windows and macOS as equals, putting windows side-by-side in a way that it would be difficult to determine if you’re working in a Windows app or inside a Mac app. You can alleviate so many of these issues by working seamlessly between Windows and macOS using Parallels on the Mac.

Or you have to help troubleshoot for a colleague and they have no idea what you mean when you say “Hit the Command button.” Or you take a course where the required software is available only on Windows. A “Here’s a spreadsheet I built to calculate the return on investment” email hits with an Excel attachment and opening the workbook in Numbers just doesn’t do the trick. If you’re a Mac user working inside business of any sort, you can bet you’ve run into multiple instances of cross-platform compatibility issues. My answer to the second question is fulfilled in one term: compatibility.

”How can a regular Mac user benefit by working in Windows on a Mac instead of macOS?” I’m going to answer a tangential question instead:

Why would a regular Mac user choose to work in Windows on a Mac instead of macOS? A colleague on the The Sweet Setup team recently asked me a profound question related to Windows on the Mac - a question wherein I completely dropped the ball in answering.

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