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FWB Admits RealPC for Mac OS X was Vaporware
reiggin writes "In a press release on their site, FWB's new management comes clean and says that the former management had been lying about an upcoming RealPC OS X release. Apparently, not one line of code had even been written. This is a huge disappointment for anyone looking for an alternative to the now-MS owned Virtual PC (which, incidentally, Apple and Microsoft have said will not initially run on a G5)."
"Of the ten people I work with who use OS X, six of them are coders."
And out of 10 people I know who are Windows users, 6 of them are coders.
Just because you know Mac OS X programmers doesn't mean the majority is a programmer.
$150mil is nothing to microsoft, it's not nothing to Apple though, or rather wasn't, it's what saved them from bankruptcy long enough to get the imac to market.
"Of course, they could call Linux a competitor also. That's a weaker claim in that Linux corporations aren't even as large as Apple, but stronger in that Apple doesn't actually compete in the OS market space (it's really a hardware company)."
Depending on which firms numbers you believe, linux has either almost the same, or more desktop market share than apple now... not to mention linux and unix in general own every other aspect of the computer market already... I'd say microsoft is DEFINATELY more concerned with the growing linux OS (which is gaining market share whhile at the MS loses and apple stays the same... hmm) than an old hat with a few old timer loyal fans that it beat a long long time ago and has chosen to let continue to the degree it does because of Bill's personal fondness.
But then your post was offtopic since you didn't reply to my point.