Windows on a Mac!?
Windows on a Mac!?
- Subject: Windows on a Mac!?
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:36:23 -0800
Dear friends,
Did you read this bit of news in the NY Times? David Pogue is writing here
about the new Intel-based Macs:
"The best news, though, is yet to come. It comes in two parts: first, the
increasing speed as more and more programs are Universalized.
Second, in principle, with the assistance of a driver kit that someone will
surely write, Intel-based Macs can be restarted in Microsoft Windows.
Everybody wins: Microsoft can sell more copies of Windows, Apple makes the
only computers on earth that can run both consumer operating systems at full
speed, and the masses don't have to sacrifice the huge library of
Windows-only software."
(David Pogue, "Intel Inside. Huh?!", NY Times, Jan. 25, 2006;
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25pogue.html?page
wanted=2&_r=1>)
Before I read it in this article, I had never heard of Macs optionally
rebooting straight into *Windows*, without the help of any simulation
software. (That will also mean that the Mac will gain the dubious honor of
having to worry about viruses and worms: great!)
We're not there yet (specialized software still has to be written before
that becomes possible), but it may be a blessing in disguise...or perhaps
just another subtle way for the "madman of Redmond" to take over Apple!
We'll see.
Regards.
P.S.: Besides this piece of "good" news, the bad news is that the Classic
environment will be *gone for good* with Intel Macs. Rosetta won't do
Classic. That will certainly come as a shock to those of us who still
operate older drum scanners that function using software that only runs
under Classic.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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