Sure. Just be relevant about your new passion.

I think Fran did a great job of explaining below - as well as everyone else. You should not need to download anything onto your computer. I use my work laptop, my own laptop and my cell phone to post and create. You should be fine. Other than needing a place to be able to pull images that you will want to put onto your site and posts, there will be no need to download anything. Maybe consider purchasing a USB key if you don't have one so you can save images onto it for easy accessibility!

I understand your question and the underlying concern about downloading something to your company's computer.

In general, the answer is: no, there is no requirement. But there are some things that you may want to take advantage of.

Once you upgrade to premium (If you so elect), a ton of additional training is open to you. That includes live webinars, which are conducted through the "Go To Meeting" platform (by Citrix). These are not required; and they are also recorded, so that you can view them here on the site— without the Go To Meeting download—within 24 hours. Many companies use Go To Meeting anyway; so this one may not be an issue. The advantage of attending the live webinars is that we can question the trainer as he goes along.

All of the Wordpress themes and plugins are downloaded or imported directly into the hosted web site you create. You _can_ download those to your computer. Certainly you shouldn't need to, unless you were getting something obscure, that was not listed on the http://wordpress.org site itself. (However, it's risky to get a plugin that Wordpress hasn't vetted; so such downloads aren't advised.)

You also may want to use some images from various public domain or sites specializing CC0 - licensed works. CC0 licensing allows for free commercial use without attribution (Yea!). These would have to be downloaded to your computer. Images are not software; but it's worth mentioning. Again, there are even ways around this—if you upload to a cloud drive, for example.

--Fran

This is actually our main business. In the certification ccourse I don't remember anything That You MUST download. I have a Dell laptop and when I worked for CONOCOPHILLIPS there were 10000 little Dell laptops. You should be fine. You can always store things on Dropbox or whatever Cloud software that you have to save it from taking up space on your laptop. Especially if it's a company laptop. We can usually get Hardware cheaper than most people let us know and we will see if we can help you no charge.

There should be no problem in using your laptop - I use mine all the time! I haven't had to download anything so for - you should be fine :)

I'm finishing up Course 2 and I havent had to download anything.

You don't have to download any programs onto you computer. Many computers have advantages over each other, it can be based on CPU, CPU speed, amount of memory, type of storage, etc., the list is endless. I think your work laptop should be fine.