I am an enterprise application architect. My daily professional work consists of creating architectural documents and writing code in C# using the .NET Framework. But I do all of this on a MacBook Pro using a Parallels virtual machine or, in now rare occasions, the Boot Camp instance. I run Windows Vista Ultimate in the VM. But I only work in Windows when I have to. Even my documentation work is all done on the Mac side now. Here are the Mac applications I use regularly:
- Parallels.VMWare Fusion. This is my VM software. Since I bought this, VMWare has come out with a very nice competing product. But ParallelsVMWare works very well and now has DirectX support so, in theory, it's possible that I could do some light Windows gaming in the VM now. (Link)