“Microsoft… said it would have no problem granting a Windows licence to Apple, in exactly the same way it currently provides licences to Dell and HP. ‘Just like all Microsoft’s OEMs, Apple can build industry-standard hardware that’s compatible with Windows; Microsoft has an open specification and a process for certifying the hardware,’ said a Microsoft spokesman. ‘Microsoft would support Apple the same way it supports every other PC manufacturer,'” Stewart Mitchell writes for PC Pro. “However, running Mac OS X on a significantly cheaper PC remains an elusive dream, because Apple ‘will not allow Mac OS X to be run on anything other than an Apple Mac’, said the company’s senior vice president Phil Schiller.”
“Nevertheless, it seems certain that hackers will work out a way of doing exactly this, although it won’t be easy since Apple’s Intel-based Macs use extensible firmware interface (EFI), whereas Microsoft’s Windows XP relies on BIOS, and the two aren’t natively interoperable,” Mitchell writes. “In reality, however, the biggest news for Windows developers is legally porting their software to Apple. CodeWeavers, for example, has expanded its software porting capabilities to include support for Windows-to-Mac – in theory, significantly reducing the time and cost of developing Mac versions of Windows software. ‘The shift to Intel chips is good news for Windows developers who, for reasons of time and expense, have never created Mac versions of their key applications,’ said CodeWeavers chief executive Jeremy White. ‘It’s a new opportunity for them.'”
Mitchell writes, “Apple’s move to Intel has hardly turned the world of Windows on its head. But it has thrown up new hope for cross-platform development, which in the long term may bring great benefits to PC professionals.”
Full article here.
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and Apple has no problem declining the offer.
I don’t want windows. I have an Apple so that I don’t have to use that crap. Best part about Apple isn’t the computers, it’s the macintosh.
This is great!
Now we can have all the crappy Windows software in crappy Mac versions. Excelent move to x86!
I’d rather have the best of both worlds. The best OS (Mac OS X) and the best processors (Intel x86). So I’ll keep my iMac Core Duo just as it is now thank you. I don’t want or need to install Windows XP or Vista on it.
hehe licensing win to apple… that would be like licensing a windmill to someone who has learned to manage fusion
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LOL!
M$ always amazes me with their bloody check.
WHY THE HELL WOULD APPLE WANT TO LICENCE M$’s OS???
‘cough’ HERES SOME NEWS FOR YOU M$ – APPLE MAKE THEIR ON OS!
AND IT MAKES YOURS LOOK LIKE A POS.
Will Microsoft sell Windows for VMWare users? What about their own VirtualPC. How long is this going to take?
Well of course Microsoft doesn’t have a problem licensing Windows to Apple. MS wouldn’t have a problem licensing Windows to Satan himself.
Why don’t these people get it? Apple doesn’t care about Windows. They are not trying to be another Dell, Gateway, or run of the mill box builder. Apple is charting their own course!
Besides, why would Apple want to run a cheap knockoff of their own ideas?
Forget Windows people! You don’t need it.
http://www.switchedtomac.com
And I think I just heard four horsemen thundering over the horizon.
2+ decades in and we still haven’t figured out that cheap hardware equals higher operating costs. I know many people who use $299 Dells – I don’t know a single person running a $299 Del who hasn’t put $1000 worth of hardware upgrades, software upgrades, hardware fixes, and more often than not simply repurchasing completely new hardware, etc., inside of the first 18-24 months.
In my Mac collection exists a Beige G3 and a Strawberry iMac: The Beige G3 gets used almost on a daily basis and was purchased in 1997, I’ve put $500 into it over the years upgrading the RAM and hard drive. The Stawberry iMac gets used everyday and was purchased in 1998, over the years I’ve put $150 into it upgrading RAM and recently replacing a fried power supply that got zapped by a major power surge at a summer camp 2 years ago.
I absolutely love the analogy Emil!
Why would anyone buy a Mac to run Windows?! Sounds counter productive if you ask me!!
“However, running Mac OS X on a significantly cheaper PC remains an elusive dream, because Apple ‘will not allow Mac OS X to be run on anything other than an Apple Mac’, said the company’s senior vice president Phil Schiller.”
Exactly who’s “elusive dream” is this?
switchedtomac & MacDude
Yes. Apple does need to support Windows if it ever want to be a corporate player. Some software apps and customized internal applications specially those in MS Access are never going to be ported to OSX.
Then again the Steve J. may not care about that market.
Sounds like the seeds of desperation to me.
Once a viable Windows app environment becomes available for the Mac, one that doesn’t require Windows to run apps, Windows will become irrelevent for a lot of people.
I hope this CodeWeavers company will do great business helping software developers weave their code right into OSX. All this attention to Macs running Windows, OSX on standard x86 hardware and such is a good thing. Hopefully these windows-only developers are hearing the buzz and realizing their customers are seeking something different.
Everyone that uses AutoCad, for example, should email the company and tell them they are considering switching to the new Intel Macs and will be looking at alternative CAD software. If they start getting enough calls they might realize they need to port AutoCad to Mac.
MW=car, as it Pixar’s newest movie is Cars
MS can take is Windows Vista and shove that turd back up into their Brokeback sphincter
Of course M$ sells OS Windows to anybody, Apple is somebody and is the only one on Mac OS… my god, what a blah blah !
JUST PORT HALF-LIFE GODAMNIT! I want more games for my Mac!!!! The Mac SUCKS the BIG ONE when it comes to games. Maybe this will soon change…
>Exactly who’s “elusive dream” is this?>
It would be a bloody nightmare!
G Spank. Will you never learn? Games are for little people. Macs create and do productive things. Games–Phwaaw.
MW–making, as in – making things.
1) This is a great political move by Microsoft. Recent articles have been saying that dual-booting a Mac would help marketshare. From Microsoft’s perspective, rather than having access to 95% of the PC market, they could potential capture the other 5% as well. (I know Linux has a % but all Linux machines could run Windows.)
Rant time:
2) Why does everybody say the we need to find ways to increase Apple’s marketshare when Apple can’t even meet current demand? I can see it now, everybody wants a Mac. Nobody can get one because of limited manufacturing capability. A blackmarket is formed with people standing on the corner with laptops in their overcoats and EBay prices go ballistic. (Psst, hey you, I got a clamshell iBook, runs OS10.4 OK, only $900!!)
3) Why do people insist on playing games on their computers when PS2, Xbox etc. do such a better job? Use your computer for…….work!!!
I don’t see what the big deal is about going to the corporate market? Apple makes computers for designers, movie makers, creative thinkers. Why bother?????? I think it would just be a big headache for apple. just my thought
I don’t see what the big deal is about going to the corporate market? Apple makes computers for designers, movie makers, creative thinkers. Why bother?????? I think it would just be a big headache for apple. just my thought
I don’t see what the big deal is about going to the corporate market? Apple makes computers for designers, movie makers, creative thinkers. Why bother?????? I think it would just be a big headache for apple. just my thought