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  1. MS does not care which browser Mac users employ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Microsoft Kills Off Mac IE, Blames Safari

    They've already won: http://www.macdailynews.com/opinion_comments.php?i d=P1240_0_2_0_C

  2. Close by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Insightful · on RealPC For Mac Delayed By MS Cease And Desist

    It could be that Microsoft plans on killing VPC, and doesn't want there to be any way to run Windows on Mac.

    Q: Yes, but why?
    A: Palladium.

    Microsoft is really into this whole Palladium thing. It provides a way to secure future revenue streams once Windows' competitors pass it by on the technology front. They just need to provide a 'secure platform' and convince/acquire the big media players into only allowing their IP to be available on Palladium.

    Palladium relies on trusted hardware. If you have a bunch of trusted 'hardware' out there running emulated in software it's suddenly much easier to peek at. This is bad for media sales, and Microsoft revenue.

    So, might as well cut off any such efforts before they get off the ground. Who do you think has more lawyers, FWB or Microsoft? My vocabulary word of the day today is barratry.

    From this perspective, the iTunes Music Store is the biggest poke in the eye Steve could have stuck to Bill, and puts them on the defensive like nothing else could. The iTunes Music Store is actually strategically necessary for the future viability of Mac OS X and Apple. It's real purpose is to preempt Palladium. I have to admit, that's pretty frikkin clever.