Integrating Apple with Microsoft for use in business

I hear your words, But I have no idea what you are talking about. I do not know what it means to integrate Microsoft apps into your business.

You have access to the Apps. They will run on your Mac. You can produce spreadsheets, written documents and letters, and presentations. You can send and receive emails. You can use Microsoft tools and Apple Tools or both at the same time.

Could you please explain, ¿What more do you want to do, exactly?

System Preferences > Internet Accounts ...

this allows you to enter MANY different kinds of account information: Apple-ID (including multiples) Email accounts, server accounts, mail accounts calendar accounts, and many more.

If you find you are not making contact with the correct repositories for the appropriate documents, just select the correct Account and you should be good to go.

LOTS of folks manage a business (or two, or three) and maintain their personal accounts as well, all on one Macintosh.

Fallcreek_catering wrote:

My Microsoft products seem to not be sure which account they are supposed to be login with and the same with my Apple ID’s. I bet these issues will clear up if I just stop delaying and buy a MacBook for business only.

If you are using a computer from 2010, then you definitely need a new one. The old one may be dying any day now. Make sure to get an external drive for backups.

As far as productivity apps like e-mail, calendar, and maybe contacts, Apple has very good support for Office365 services. Apple Mail with Exchange is actually better than Apple Mail with iCloud. You can setup a separate account in Mail for your Office365 accounts. It will check that account along with the other ones.

The Office apps (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) all work great on the Mac. You can store your documents in either iCloud, or Microsoft's OneDrive, or even just locally. (I would recommend iCloud). Just note that Microsoft doesn't support all office apps on the Mac. There is no Access and no Project.

When it comes to domain management, and Microsoft online accounts, I'm afraid you're on your own there. I have Office365 running e-mail for my domain, but it certainly wasn't easy to setup. You may need assistance from your domain name registrar and DNS people. They should be familiar with how to set those things up.

I can't do anything at all about Microsoft's accounts, authentication, and online services. That's just a royal mess. Sometimes I have to go into the Exchange admin settings to dial back the extreme anti-spam filtering. Every time it is a different interface. Once I had to contact Apple support over trying to find out how to do something really simple. At least the Office365 support experience was very good.

Office 365 works on Windows PCs and Macs. The product from each is interchangeable.

I was not referring to the web based Office. Office 365 is available for inatallation on Macs and Windows PCs.