Is it possible to play MSN games on a Mac?

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Is it possible to play MSN games on a Mac?

We loved playing Texas Holdem on MSN games on our home PC. Now that we have an IMac we cannot play, MSN says our operating system does not support it. Called Microsoft and they said to ask Apple if I can download something called "boot camp" and then download IE 7.0 I don't want to do anything that will upset the IMac's operating system, this thing is only a week old but sure do miss my games....tried all the other poker games on App Store and internet none of them are any good.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 27, 2012 6:36 PM

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Linc Davis

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Apr 27, 2012 7:01 PM in response to Valerie818

I don't know what MSN games are, but from what you describe, I think they depend on something called "ActiveX," which only runs on Windows. So to play those games, you need Windows. Your best option would have been to keep your PC. Boot Camp is one way of running Windows on a Mac. To use it, you need to buy a retail copy of Windows 7, which is quite expensive. There are other ways to run Windows, but they all require you to buy a copy of some version of Windows.

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