If you don’t have a Mac and aren’t planning to get a Mac, we’ve just freed up about five minutes of your time.
Go spend it wisely!
For Mac Enthusiasts
We’ve been using Apple products since 1979; over the years, hundreds of them. Everyone in the company, except our superb Techie team, uses a Mac as their primary computer. Almost 20{9e5c399d4686ffbee71f542e7a95a67178027d042b67cd6e8c3b22a26beb12ba} of our website traffic is from Mac platforms. So, it has pained us daily for 18 months that the version of Word Microsoft sells for the Mac will not support TheFormTool.
We’ve tried Parallels and still have it installed; version 8 is pretty good. But our hearts were captured six months ago by CrossOver, a little program with just one purpose, to allow some Windows programs to run on a Mac. You can read about our experience with it below, at TheFormTool on a Mac (v2.0). The bottom line: we love it!
The TheFormTool/Word/CrossOver/Mac lashup works nearly perfectly. We can run TheFormTool on Word 2007 and Word 2010 seamlessly, without the risk of Windows exposing our Macs or our network to to the world, not to mention the dollars saved by avoiding buying Windows or its prophylatics.
At TheFormTool, LLC, we have some amazing products coming to help the Mac folks, and the Linux people, and the Word Perfect users, but they won’t become available until 2014. Meanwhile, what’s a Mac user to do?
Here’s Our offer to Mac Users
For a limited time only, if you’re running Mac 10.8x on a recent machine, a Mac, MacBook, or MacBook PRO. Sorry, no iPad or iPhone. The version of Word that Microsoft is providing them is even more lobotomized than usual We’ll install CrossOver, Word for Windows (2007 or 2010 only) and TheFormTool PRO or Doxserá on your machine for you. You supply the Word for Windows program, we’ll do the rest. You’ll get a fully functional Word experience with the magic of TheFormTool PRO or Doxserá running on your Mac.
It’s that simple.
We’re going to devote only limited resources to this project and only for a limited time. It’s by appointment only. The price is $465 per machine, plus whatever you spend on Word 2007 or 2010 (currently about $120 to $150 on eBay). That price includes a license for CrossOver and a license for TheFormTool PRO.
If you’d like to make an appointment, please drop us a line at Mac-at-www.theformtool.com. We’ll set a time, invoice you, and guarantee a successful installation.
You’ll love the experience of TheFormTool on a Mac.
It’s simply remarkable.™
A couple of questions:
1. If I have Parallels on my Mac, does it make sense to use CrossOver ?
2. Is it easier to use a PC machine that is networked to the Mac or just use Parallels?
Thanks,
Good questions. I have Parallels on my machine, but use CrossOver exclusively for three reasons. CrossOver uses less memory. As an intensive user, memory is always precious; in spite of always having the maximum available, it is never enough. Any approach that conserve memory but yields the same result is going to be my favored approach. As a program rather than an operating system, CrossOver is easier for me to manage within my Mac environment. As I’ve written, I use multiple desktops within the Mac OS to manage my day. One of those desktops is devoted to Crossfire and Word, which just sit there quietly until needed. When I save Word documents, I save them as Word documents but file them away within my Mac structure. This yields the best of two worlds: no conversions unless needed, but immediate access. So if you ask for demo document ABC, I can access and get it to you immediately, but it stays in a Word 2010 format unless I need to change it for some (relatively rare) reason.
Finally, the big issue. As a Mac user since giving up Lisa, I’m not enthusiastic about exposing my computers or our system to all the risks to which Windows is prone. With hundreds of Macs, millions of Internet windows, I’ve not yet experienced a single malware or invasion incident and am not looking forward to the experience. Nor do I want to become an expert in Windows vulnerabilities. Rightly or wrongly, better the devil I know.
All that said, the newer versions of Parallels are quite good. Installation of Windows and TFT on Parallels is straightforward, reliable and stable.
The installation on CrossOver is… well, trying, a royal pain in the rear. However, once it’s up and running, it’s trouble free. As you may have noticed, we have a limited-time offer for the installation. In my mind, that makes it almost a no-brainer in favor of CrossOver if you don’t have Parallels. If you do, well that’s a tougher one.
Either way, if you get TheFormTool as the final result, it’s worth it. It really is Simply Remarkable™.