“In a 2003 interview between ZDNet and former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, a question was asked that resulted in a very revealing response when compared against today’s relationship between Intel,” osViews reports. “Mr. Barrett responded by saying [Emphasis added], ‘It will certainly give users a lot of flexibility to have different profiles on the same machine. If people use it for multiple OSes, running in sync on the same processor, it opens up a lot of different use models, and perhaps competitive models in the marketplace. If you are able to say, have two OSes running simultaneously, you won’t have to rely on a single OS for everything. So you could have Mac OS and Longhorn on the same system, using Longhorn for business stuff and Mac OS for personal stuff. But first you’d need to convince Steve Jobs that it’s a great idea.'”
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I sure hope so. That would save me from having to buy a Mac *AND* a Windows box. I’d just buy the Mac and having Windows to tote along when I needed it.
I sure hope so. That would save me from having to buy a Mac *AND* a Windows box. I’d just buy the Mac and having Windows to tote along when I needed it.
I sure hope so. That would save me from having to buy a Mac *AND* a Windows box. I’d just buy the Mac and having Windows to tote along when I needed it.
I sure hope so. That would save me from having to buy a Mac *AND* a Windows box. I’d just buy the Mac and having Windows to tote along when I needed it.
I’d actually like this. I’m thinking of taking an ASP.NET class for work and I need a Windows Machine to do the homework.
“The there’s the Dharma rumor. Tomorrow could be interesting.”
First, keep in mind that this rumor is 10 months old and talked about Safari for Windows being released. Personally, I think it’s a bad idea.
Second, while Xcode is pretty nice, would you want to depend on Apple for your Windows development tools, if you were a Windows developer? Hell, no. You go with Microsoft. I mean, here’s the conversation:
“Okay, let me get this straight–we should rewrite all of our stuff to use your environment in this weird language that nobody but you are using so that we can produce software for a platform which is used by 5% of the people out there. Are you mad?!”
Shades of 1997.
Mostly, you’d see Mac shops picking it up to turn their apps into Windows apps.
One of the advantages of developing in Cocoa is that you get support for all the new things Apple puts into it’s operating system quickly and conveniently. Cocoa for Windows would give developers more incentive to create “least common denominator” applications which did not take advantage of great Apple technologies which add value. What are you going to do with your Spotlight calls when Windows doesn’t have Spotlight, hmm? And how are you going to convince application developers to include cool Mac features if they have to go into their code and do lots of “Am I running on Windows? Turn this off” kinds of things.
Like I said, bad idea.
If the new Macs are able to run Windows… people and corporations will purchase the hardware – but the end-users will soon embrace OSx and discard Windows.
Lost Budgie’s Take: Get An Apple and Regain Your Life