It’s official: Intel Macs can run Windows
Wednesday
Jan 11, 2006
From MSNBC, it’s official: Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers can run Windows. Announced at the MacWorld Expo 2006, Apple will not prevent users from installing and running the world’s most popular operating system on the world’s sexiest computer hardware.
Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won’t sell or support Windows itself, but also hasn’t done anything to preclude people from loading Windows onto the machines themselves.
Looks like Microsoft doesn’t see Apple’s Mac OS X as a threat to its dominance of the enduser/desktop computer market. And Apple doesn’t regard the use of Windows to be a diluting factor in the sexiness of the Apple hardware line.
Personally, I would rather have Windows applications run natively on OS X rather than have to dual-boot up to Windows.
(via DIGG)
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