I recently came across an esoteric "Windows only" electrical engineering program that I wanted to run on my Mac (LTspice/SwitcherCAD III -- more about that later). And, while contemplating the $200-$300 cost of a legitimate Windows license, it might occur to you that the goal in this case is to run a program that runs under Windows-- not actually to run Windows itself. So why not look at Wine? Wine is a venerable software compatibility layer that allows unix-like operating systems to run programs designed for Windows. It turns out that there is even a Parallels-like virtualization environment so that you can run programs programs in Wine alongside Mac programs. It's called Crossover Mac, and it's $60 from Codeweavers.
No idea on why you would want to do that, but I suppose the fact that knowing you could do so is good enough.
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