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Neither SolidWorks nor QuickBooks runs in browser. Those two pieces of software are absolutely essential to many companies.

QuickBooks online doesn't seem to need Windows. Since it works from apps, I assume it works from macOS as well.

Fusion360 works on macOS and has been pounding the hell out of SolidWorks in the small business sector.

QuickBooks online is a very far cry from QuickBooks Enterprise. Like, they aren't even close to the same program.
Technically QuickBooks is no longer available outside of a web browser connected to Intuit's servers.
Both run on macOS.
Not officially, therefor not with support.
Sorry, I should have been more specific.

QuickBooks for Mac is not feature-equivilent to QuickBooks Enterprise. You cannot run QuickBooks Enterprise on a Mac, as far as I know, and if you can, it isn't on the supported OS list.

>"Note: Linux and Windows 10 S Mode not supported. QuickBooks requires you to use Windows natively and not through an emulator or virtual environment."

From https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-artic...

Solidworks only supports eDrawings for Mac. eDrawings is not what I was referring to.

Software like Quickbooks is easy to run via RemoteApp. In fact, many probably do that, because it makes for easier maintenance. (I've seen several companies to run Dynamics AX exactly this way, for exactly this reason).

With Solidworks, it would be much more difficult. It is a kind of software, you want to run locally on your beefy workstation.

eDrawings for Mac is not Solidworks
'Support' is such a nebulous, catch-all term to justify throwing good money after bad.

The author paid for Windows 11. Why try to crowdsource help for free when they can presumably just pick up a phone and get Microsoft to fix their problem for them?

>Support' is such a nebulous, catch-all term to justify throwing good money after bad.

Or it means that QuickBooks is running into issues, and there is no in-house IT department to troubleshoot it, so they call up QuickBooks support.

> QuickBooks support.

Now that really is throwing good money after bad. QuickBooks has some of the absolute worst support money can buy.

I mean, I'm not going to defend the quality of their support.

But if your a small company (i.e. no in-house IT) and you have to choose between using the support included with your purchase of QuickBooks or paying a third-party IT company an hourly consulting rate to fix a QuickBooks problem... The choice is pretty clear.

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