Microsoft Visio and a Mac?
The single shortfall that has always lingered since my migration to the Mac in 1999 was Microsoft Visio. In the early days of switching I kept a PC running with Visio on it. Then later as virtualization matured a bit on the Mac platform with Parallels and VMWare Fusion - I transitioned to running a Windows OS on my Macs (both XP and Windows 7). Finally, there is a native answer that enables me to collaborate with my Windows-based peers who churn out diagrams in Vision.
As I am not a natural artist - even to share basic business and technology ideas - I have always turned to a visual approach. Thus Visio has always been my friend. Not that I do not care for using Microsoft tools - but being fully immersed on the Mac platform it would be more user friendly to either have Microsoft enable Visio on OS X or for a tool to surface. OmniGraffle Professional now can directly interact with Visio files without hacks, exports and imports. Moreover, OmniGraffle users can also open Visio stencil and Visio templates.
For the business user or the technologist - this closes a circle of applications that enables Mac users to collaborate with Windows users. Microsoft Office for the Mac lies at the center - providing cross-platform support to Office 2007. Both Entourage (part of Office for the Mac) and Mail.app provide Exchange server support (an Outlook alternative) and then the OmniGraffle - Visio connector closes the circle.
