professional translation software for mac

If you want to run it on your Mac, you have to use a virtual machine and for some of us, it can get quite troublesome (see Lingua Greca’s blog). The most popular CAT tool, Trados (about 70% of the translators use it) ( Proz), only runs on Windows.

I was wondering this because, as a Mac user and earlier Microsoft user, I sometimes struggle in my everyday tasks as a translator. The question is: which operating system do you use as a translator? (Sorry I will not be talking about others OSs like Linux or Ubuntu because I have never used them, but feel free to talk about your experience if you are using one of them!) There are certainly many other reasons but that is not the point of my post. Windows is still the main operating system used, with about 73% of shares, but Mac is much more represented with almost 24%! There are several reasons for this, for example higher incomes and the love Swiss can have for well-designed and beautiful objects. While most of the world uses Microsoft (more or less 83% of shares) and quite a notable few use Mac (almost 10%) (see Stat Counter for exact figures), the situation is different here in Switzerland.

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Professional translation software for mac