Will Apple Adopt Windows? 02.15.06
My guess is yes, but not at the expense of OS X or whatever it evolves into. I currently run Windows XP on my Powerbook 12" via Virtual PC. There are still some business programs I need that won't run natively on the Mac platform. My best guess it that Windows will at some point be able to run natively on Apple hardware.
It will be interesting to see how all this plays out. Security issues...to partition or not to partition (that' one of the questions.) As it stands now, if I get a virus on my virtual Windows XP computer, I can just throw it away and create another virtual computer. OS X remains uninfected by these viruses. I keep a clean disk image of my virtual XP "machine" just in case this happens.
Epstein made four observations. The first was that the Apple Switch ad campaign was over, and nobody switched.
Not true...I personally know 6 people that did.
The second was that the iPod lost its FireWire connector because the PC world was the new target audience.
Not really a new target audience per se...but it allowed Apple to sell to a wider audience. In other words, I see this as a smart business move rather than a hint at an OS switch.
And, of course, that Apple had switched to the Intel microprocessor.
This was to get to faster powerbooks. They needed a new chip that would run cooler/more efficiently to do this. IBM didn't deliver.
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