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Dear Dierdre

Have you considered Mac's with virtualised Windows?

A couple of iMacs using Apple's Spaces (say one space for OS X and one space for Windows) will allow you to put XP Pro (assuming one has sufficient license to do so).

And, of course, Office software and so forth can be installed as well.

As you already have one Mac perhaps it would also double as a test machine?

That way you can demonstrate to staff how applications work virtually.

Any bespoke software designed for Windows can also be tested for full functionality.

I'd also suggest a couple of neat utulity applications. One will allow Windows to read/write to Mac disks and the other will allow Mac to read/write to Windows disks.

What more could one ask for?

2 iMacs

1 wi-fi disk thingy that will create a network, allow network storage to disks, allow access to the internet if you wish

MacDrive (to allow stuff to flow freely between Windows => Mac

Paragon NTFS for Mac (see Smith Micro for both of these)

And the above should do the trick nicely.

Mobile Me is also worth delving into