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If Windows Came to PPC, Would You Switch?

Posted by Cliff on from the converse-questions dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "This question was posted on Ask Slashdot about a week ago: 'If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch?' This makes me ask why not have Windows run on PowerPC? Windows/PPC would not necessarily have to run on Apple hardware, or at least not exclusively on it. I'm sure their friends at IBM and Motorola would be happy to provide chips to anyone that wanted to make computers to run this new OS. Microsoft could dust off the code from NT4/PPC, add some code from Virtual PC to get Windows/x86 compatibility, and have it up and running in about the same amount of time it would take Apple to get Mac OS X running on common Intel hardware." An additional question comes to mind, however: If Microsoft made this move, how would Intel react?

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  1. ITs the other way around idiot by eadint · · Score: 0, Troll

    ppc and p970 are the BMW x86 is the kia.
    look at your proccessor specs you fucking moron. the p970 is far superior to the x86. but an idiot like you wouldnt know a detail like that.