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If you're a MacOS user, you can still run Windows apps.
These tools make it possible to run hundreds of thousands of apps.
Some of the above apps are free, but some aren't.
If you're a MacOS user, and you have a particular Windows-only app you need to run, you're in luck. There are several options for running Windows apps on MacOS, each of which is easy to do and some of which are actually free.
To make this happen, applications either rely on an open-source compatibility layer, called Wine, or they've created a proprietary solution to make it possible to run those Windows apps on MacOS.
I've used these apps often and have found each of them to be outstanding solutions for this problem. I've created a list of my favorite tools for running those Windows apps on MacOS that I believe any user could work with.
1. VirtualBox
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