Re: NB 8 (Trial version)

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

Actually a company called Parallels released a nifty program to run
Windows simultaneously (in a window) on a intel Mac.



On Apr 13, at 5:39 PM, Robert Holmgren wrote:
** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"
 on Thu, 13
Apr 2006 11:56:01 -0400
There's even a Mac util (but it's beta and unsupported) called
Bootcamp
that's supposed to let you switch between Mac and Windows opsyses
on an
Intel Mac. ("But why would you want to?" ask the Mac true-believers.)
The recent Apple announcement that new Macs will be able to run
Windows
amounts, simply, to dual booting -- and nothing more. You must
reset the
machine to change OpSyses. So in other words, the great
achievement here is
simply to adjust Mac hardware so that Windows can recognize it. 
Why can't they
virtualize a Windows machine under OSX? Small beer. (However, I
do see that
Apple finally added a third button to their mouse -- and also a wheel!
Innovative!)
Meanwhile, M$ is desperately trying to dodge this bullet by dumping
yet another
of the grand departures that Shorthorn/Vista originally promised,
namely EFI
(to replace the BIOS). And Vista will require that all drivers be
digitally
"signed" by Microsoft -- which basically means that Microsoft will
be writing
all the drivers, and old equipment will be useless. Vista will
appear in, not
two, but seven different versions (the costliest "Ultimate" version
will be a
roll-your-own OpSys). M$ projects 400 million installations within
two years.
So let's see: 400,000,000 x $200 = $80 billion.

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Robert Holmgren
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