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By Derek Wyszynski, Director of Sales at Parallels
Let the flame wars commence! Okay, first read the post, THEN flame, capice? As in absolutely loathe and refuse to own a current Mac, period. I've got a whole list of reasons, but let's step back a moment. It's like the application is not registering the new SDK. It's in beta so I'm not too surprised migrating from older versions to newer ones. Try closing out of everything and jumping back in, this would be an ideal Windows solution, but I'd hate to say Mac usually doesn't have problems like that, typically. – Apollo SOFTWARE May 16 '13 at 18:39.
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support. Are you the only one who feels that macOS sucks? About 90% of those who use computers use Windows. I’m pretty sure a fair percentage of them think macOS sucks. But I could say the same thing about Windows. Well, not exactly.
Everyone in this pic (other than the guy in the red shirt in the middle) started the dinner hating Mac computers. Not anymore!
“I hate Mac.”
That’s what I heard from a lot of people at Microsoft Ignite this year.
Which is funny, because when you work at a company like Parallels (which has been at the forefront of making Mac accessible to the corporate enterprise user), that sentence is kind of like being splashed in the face with ice-cold water.
“I hate Mac.”
That’s almost like saying, “I hate puppies, chocolate, and warm fuzzy blankets on a chilly evening.”
So who was telling me this?
It certainly wasn’t anyone who came up to our booth and said, “Wow, I love Parallels. I’ve been using your software for two (or five or 10 years) and I love running windows on my Mac!”
No, it wasn’t them, because they were daily Mac® users. They were software developers, UX designers, marketing people—heck, even some C-level leaders. And they loved their Mac computers.
I’m sure you have people in your own life like them—some sister or cousin or co-worker who has a silver Mac with stickers all over it and goes on and on about how great Mac is.
They’re kind of like people who do CrossFit. You know you never have to ask someone who does CrossFit about it…they’ll tell you all about it on their own. Over and over and over.
Mac users are like that. I should know—that’s a large part of the Parallels customer base. These Mac lovers use Parallels to make their Mac “work in the corporate enterprise.” Parallels Desktop® for Mac lets them stay “Mac people” but enables them access to Windows applications when they need to use them.
So no, it wasn’t the end users who were telling me how much they hated Mac.
Who was it?
Windows admins. IT people. SCCM gurus. Intune experts.
These people told me that they hated Mac.
So I asked them, “Why? How could you hate Mac? It’s an incredibly elegant piece of hardware with an amazing OS that is so good, the people who use it are extremely loyal to the Apple brand!”
And to a person, they answered, “Exactly.”
You see, to the Windows admin, Mac is unmanageable.
What do I mean? Think about it. Doing simple things like pushing out OS updates, managing application versions, writing scripts, creating user profiles—all the stuff normal Windows admins use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for when dealing with Windows PCs—you can’t manage Mac that way. Right?
Ask these Windows admins, and they’ll tell you that often they need YET ANOTHER console—some special “Apple-specific” software package—to manage Mac.
YAPOS: Yet Another Piece of Software. That’s the acronym I heard from them. Every vendor has YAPOS for Windows admins to buy and use to manage different endpoints.
Windows IT people are tired of YAPOS. They want to work in SCCM. They want to work in Intune.
And since Mac, supposedly, can’t live in SCCM or Intune, admins usually do one of three things:
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- Ban them.
- Ignore them and keep them off the network.
- Spend a lot of IT budget that could be going to Windows projects on YAPOS to manage these Mac devices.
So that’s why, to most Windows IT professionals, Mac computers are about as welcome on their networks as your crazy Uncle Al, who believes we faked the moon landing but is still welcome at your Thanksgiving dinner.
So why did I say “most” and not “all” Windows IT professionals?
That’s because some smart and forward-thinking IT pros are using Parallels® Mac Management for Microsoft® SCCM.
You see, Parallels Mac Management lives in SCCM! It’s not YAPOS—it’s simply a plug-in for SCCM.
The same keystrokes and mouse clicks a Windows admin uses to manage PCs in SCCM, they can use to manage Mac.
- Can you push out OS updates? Yep!
- Can you push out applications? Yep!
- Can you write scripts for Mac? Yep!
- Can you support internet-based computer management? Yep!
- Can you stay in the SCCM console and not use a separate console, which costs a lot of money and does way too many things that you don’t need to use it for, like managing printers and other stuff you already do in Windows? Yep!
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Windows IT pros that use Parallels Mac Management don’t hate Mac!
More importantly, Windows admins who use Parallels Mac Management feel they can support and even offer Mac computers to end users who need them to do their jobs.
If you’re a Windows professional and are interested in how you can learn to love Mac—or at least learn to stop hating them with the white-hot intensity of a thousand burring suns—you can take a look at what we do.
And as a final note:
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“Sounds great, Derek, but we use Intune over here at XYZ company. What do you do for that?”
Answer: “Watch this space!”
What I dont like about my ibook G4:
1. narrow hardware support. I have had 2 scanner/copier/fax/printers, and neither of them have worked with mac. they have been recognized by mac, but the drivers could not be found or downloaded. from what I hear, even if they had been found, many of their features would not have worked (like the scanner). I have also had a bit of a problem having one of my digital camera memory cards mount as volume. It will show up in iphoto and let me import photos, but will not mount as a volume. I had another digital camera that did both (would work in iphoto and also mount as a volume). the camera that wouldnt used an SD card, the camera that would mount used a MemoryStick. I dont know if that matters. did I just get the short end of the stick, or is this narrow hardware support a bit of a trend, like I have heard?
2. mac / windows network integration. when I used a windows machine, I took for granted how easily they made networking. now that I have a mac, I have found it nearly impossible to transfer files over a Ethernet or wireless network to a windows machine. please tell me if you know of an easy (free) way.
3. I have had problems with my external hard drive. I use a 2.5 inch, 80 gig laptop harddrive connected via usb2.0 for my large (40 gig) itunes library, and I run my music library directly from the external hard drive. I dont know if it is just me, but I constantly have problems with it freezing and crashing (both the hard drive and itunes trying to use it). I have had to reformat it once before, and it looks like I will have to do it again. please tell me if there is something that I need to know to help ease my pains.
4. limited options. I miss having something like a hardware manager, that I had in windows. I miss some of the extended menus and options that windows gave me. I know that the whole Idea of mac is to keep it simple, but I wish that there was some way to keep it simple and somehow have these kind of advanced options available if you wanted them. again, if these exist, please tell me.
5. imovie. I dont know if it is just because I have worked with programs like adobe premiere, but I tried to use imove to make a little movie for myself and it drove me crazy. it sucked so bad. I dont know. I just thought that it was way too simple for some things (like not being able to easily change the length of photos that you import, not being able to add an extra video or audio track for overlapping music and voice, etc.)
6. no multi-protocol chat client that supports voice chat. Adium is great, but I cant use my nifty built-in microphone. I know, im getting kind of specific, but I was saddened when I couldnt find one for the mac (trillian and gaim do this for windows, as far as I know correct me if im wrong)
7. my battery. I have read up on it a bit, and tried to treat my ibooks battery right, but I still cant seem to get more then 2:30 3:00 hours of battery life out of it. the box it came in said it would get 5-6 hours. now, granted, I am usually using my airport, listening to music with itunes, surfing on firefox, and have a couple little programs running in the background (quicksilver, konfabulator, growl, adium,) but still shouldnt I be getting around 4 hours most of the time? does anyone else have this kind of problem?
8. more plugins. not really something I dont like about my ibook, just something that would be nice. I could always use one or two more usb2.0 slots, and I wish that apple put a plugin to be able to show your screen on a tv or something, without having to buy a separate special mac cable.
9. well, I would say that I wished mac was a little quicker and didnt bog down as much, but I think that my wish came true when they switched to intel processors. we will see soon if my new mac has got a speed lift.
10. iphoto. not being able to be more selective when importing photos into iphoto from my camera. you plug in your camera and you can either import all your pictures or none of them. you can delete them all off your camera or keep them all on. I wish I could see what photos are on my camera and be able to import certain ones, while deleting others from the camera that I dont want. it also bugs me that there arent some basic options in iphoto that will let you do the things that the program preview will let you do, (such as zoom in on the picture, show it full screen, etc). I also want to be able to sort my photos much like I sort my songs in itunes, by their title, date, description, rating, etc. you can do some of this in iphoto already, but I think that It could be improved.
That really is everything I can think of that I dont like about mac. and I strained on a couple of them. That truly is amazing. the list would never end if I did one of these for windows. it would also never end if I did one on the things that I love about mac. I appreciate any input and responses.