Can I Macbook Air Laptop Download Window Program?

[King11735]

MacBook Air is a computer.please answer fast.

[retrotv]

No. A MacBook Air runs Apple OS X which is not compatible with Microsoft Windows. Try Apple for an equivalent program.

[1ozzy]

You may find this product of interest.
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/

More info here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

[1ozzy]

Info here about windows programs on mac.
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/running-pc-programs-on-a-mac-without-windows/

[retrotv]

Are you mad. CNet are a known source of malware.

[1ozzy]

I could be mad :-)
I've never downloaded from Cnet, only read up on info from there.
Never had malware from visiting the site.
Thanks for the tip.

[Milvus]

You can run Windiws on a mac in a couple of ways. What is it that you actually want to run as Windows. There is probably a mac alternative that would make life simpler and cheaper for you instead of installing Windows.

[woofgang]

If you want to run windows programs on a Mac, you can use a program called Parallels. It takes a bit of your computer and makes it believe its a windows computer. You will need to buy a copy of windows plus any windows programs that you want to run. Its does work on a a laptop but slowly, better on an imac