if you believe what you read (or what they say):
Representatives of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said Virtual PC for the Mac will continue to be sold and that Microsoft plans to continue developing the software, which has more than 1 million active users. A Microsoft executive said the company did not purchase the software to kill it, nor does Microsoft plan to stop developing its native Macintosh software, such as the Mac OS X version of Office. "Mac OS X applications (are the) best solution for heavy access to applications (like Office)," said Tim McDonough, director of marketing for Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit. "Virtual PC just takes that to the next level--you can now be compatible with applications that only run on the PC." In a statement, Apple praised Microsoft's move. "Adding Virtual PC to its product portfolio is yet another example of Microsoft's continued commitment to the Mac platform," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Virtual PC has helped people who want to own a Mac but need to run legacy PC applications. We're glad to see Virtual PC go into such good hands." Anne On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > On 2/19/03 16:33, Jerry Yeager wrote > >> Connectix, maker of Virtual PC for the Mac has sold out to M$. Perhaps >> this is M$'s answer to Apple for releasing Safari and Keynote. >> > > Hmm... should I buy VPC 6 now, or skip it? VPC 5 (what I have now) is a > dog under OS X. Ugh. > > My guess: we've seen the last version of VPC that can be bought without > buying another MS WinWhatever OS. > > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1875 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030219/a0fd57c4/attachment.bin
