Original Bloomberg Terminal software for Windows and Apple Hardware

FWIW, for your use, VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop Mac will

be more than sufficient. I have done things with virtual machines

that were a lot more demanding than the types of tools you plan

to use with little issue. Financial apps and spreadsheets should

have no problem.

The amount of RAM and your machine should be more than sufficient

to give acceptable results.

You will need a copy of Windows that you can license or already have a license

for.

My personal preferences would be VMWare Fusion, since the only really useful

version of Parallels requires a subscription. There is a non-subscription version

but it is pretty limited in capabilities, although for your purposes, it may be enough.

Both VMWare and Parallels have limited time demo versions you can

tryout if you have a copy of Windows.

BTW, both can run Windows versions from XP/98 to Windows 10.

QuietMacFan wrote:

...Why would you run Windows 10 on an iMac? It will take you lots of time to set up and may not work,...

....You can spend ages of time with all the vmware hacking and options to set that up. And "dual boot PC" have issues I don't describe but exist.

Windows 10, build 1803 works just fine on three of my Macs

via Bootcamp and didn't take any longer installing than

it did on any PC. Not magic. Not a lot of time. It just worked.

I also have Win10 1803 working in virtual machines on 2 Macs

just fine. No magic. No special tricks. Just install and runs.

I have been using VMWare Fusion (also Parallels for a time) for years on

my Macs and they were easier to set up and maintain than any PC I ever

had to deal with.

And I was running some pretty heavy duty electronic design packages

in those virtual machines.

I run Parallels desktop on my mac. Works fine for me. It is a totally incorrect to say it's anywhere non-standard. It can lead to more robust computing. Virtual Machines are a standard part of computing. They have been around since the 1960's with IBM's CP-67.

Check out the free:

Parallels Desktop Lite on the Mac App Store

All software has issues. To say that dual boot has extra-ordinary issues is misleading to totally incorrect. I had my iMac g3 triple booted.

R

I checked Codeweavers and they only list a version of Bloomberg Service from 2009 and even that isn't rated. You could try a VM if you have a copy of Windows in Parallels Desktop which runs Windows fairly well but like any VM there is always a chance the performance won't be what you like.

So… first, the Bloomberg FAQ has not been updated, but Receiver has been replaced by Citrix Workplace. It took me a while to find out but in cross-checking with Chrome I was wondering what the references were.

Mojave broke the .ica as a safe file. That in turn seem to produce a session I find slow? Locked up? Broken, anyway. I be be getting back to my account coverage tomorrow on this - I usually use the iPad version and had put this on pause on the beta, but this is bad, and obviously so.

FWIW Braeburn uses Macs with Parallels (or VPC). That is way overkill for some weekend and travel work for me but if this is going to be what Anywhere is like now, I may need to check it out.

I have the same question and don't know why Bloomberg and Apple won't develop this simple solution. Tens of thousands of Mac users out there.... who would love this. How des Apple expect migration from windows users if such important software is not available. After Mojabe and Safari 12 even the Citrix Receiver does not work.

mrsadhwani wrote:

I have the same question and don't know why Bloomberg and Apple won't develop this simple solution. Tens of thousands of Mac users out there.... who would love this.

FWIW, there are no doubt tens of thousands of Mac users who would love any number of Windows apps that aren't available. It's not Apple's job to write Bloomberg's software. Apple doesn't write any third-party's software.

Fair enough - but Apple clearly does developer outreach, and hold this little thing called WWDC you may have heard of. The Photoshop demo we just saw at the iPad launch clearly did not happen with Adobe working in a silo. I get your point, but you are being over-literal on a fair observation that it's an increasingly odd omission on the Mac: Bloomberg's iOS support is deep. Bloomberg is not the same as a company or in terms of its software, given its role in facilitating much of the backbone of global banking and trading - including Apple's. There are no doubt others in specialized fields, but this is not any old "third party."

Right, because this is absolutely binary, and no part of what I said made the slightest sense. And no, Apple clearly didn't work with Adobe for iOS Photoshop. Those on stage demos are serendipitous accidents of developers with absolutely no prior knowledge of the pipeline, or access to Apple's own engineers. That never happens. Nothing to see here. You're completely right, and I feel demolished. /gn

I'm certain Bloomberg has as much access to tools and help as any other developer. I have no clue how much access Adobe needs or asked for. I have no first hand knowledge of the their relationship and we're not allowed to speculate here.

You getting close to the time we can welcome you to the lounge. Prepare yourself. Get a tin hat. You will need it. 😉

R

Hopefully Apple won't go out of business because of Bloomberg.

Bloomberg is financial related? Then I would hit all of the recommendations for installation by them (suggested is for Windows 10 running on a PC - not installing hack wares to fake it into working). You don't want your finances to have issues (noting it may well have issues even if you do follow all their requirements - see the software license).

You can get a gaming spec PC for around $350 new and who knows what less as used. Why would you run Windows 10 on an iMac? It will take you lots of time to set up and may not work, and wasn't suggested to you by Bloomberg software requirements as something that would work.

Don't do vmware, don't install a second windows 10 partition on your imac: just get a low cost pc. You can spend ages of time with all the vmware hacking and options to set that up. And "dual boot PC" have issues I don't describe but exist.