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Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X?
mcho writes "Unlike other speculators, who get no spam, Robert X. Cringely offers an intriguing reason behind Apple's recent strategy of Boot Camp. From the article: 'I believe that Apple will offer Windows Vista as an option for those big customers who demand it, but I also believe that Apple will offer in OS X 10.5 the ability to run native Windows XP applications with no copy of XP installed on the machine at all. This will be accomplished not by using compatibility middleware like Wine, but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5.'
Damn, I whish I could mod this story +5, Funny
I can not wait to run Bonzai Buddy, not to mention all the _GREAT_ screen savers that are available for download (for free!) off the web!
yea!
1. Why and how would Apple implementing the Windows API be a good thing?
2. What Cringly has been smoking?
3. Most importantly, where can I get some of what Cringly been smoking?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
He expects Apples magical engineers to just whip out a feature complete copy of the Windows API in just a few months?
Give me a load of All-Bran or other fibre-rich foodstuffs to work on, and I'm sure I could produce a feature-complete copy of Microsoft Windows in 24 hours or so. Even less, if laxatives are involved.
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Yes, I read the article, and just saying that Apple has the "legal right" to implement the API doesn't necessarily mean that they would be able to do it effectively. As others (including myself) have pointed out, due to the cross-development agreement that IBM had with Microsoft for OS/2, they had rights equivalent to what Cringely is saying that Apple enjoyed with Microsoft until 2002.
And the only way IBM was ever able to get Windows to work even halfway correctly was to package an entire Windows 3.1 distribution into the operating system.
Karma: Chameleon - mostly influenced by bad '80s New Wave music
WHat we need is a multi-billion dollar organization with knowledge of the Windows API and developers on staff...oh. wait.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Sounds like Cringely has been sleeping with Dvorak too long. You know how when couples are with each other for a long time they begin to sound and act like each other...
"You'd never see another game port"
I thought you said they'd keep porting Photoshop?
Remember kids, tin foil doesn't work, so use LeadHat.
keep in mind he probably wrote this column in 15 minutes while high on cough medicine.
Actually, he was only able to put down on paper the fantastic visions conjured by his drugged out mind for fifteen minutes before he was interrupted by a person from Porlock. When he was finally able to get back to writing his article, he found that the vivid images had left him, and he was left with only a few fragmentary notes.
[1] Clearly a reference to Steve Jobs
[2] Jobs announces expansion of Apple campus
[3] River Alph = 1 Infinite Loop(?)
[4]Undocumented Windows APIs
[5]Apparently where WinFS is hiding
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
You just disagreed with yourself.
1) Nobody could duplicate the Windows API.
2) Wine duplicates the Windows API.
???
- Switch browsers from IE to Firefox
- Switch Operating Systems from Windows to Mac
- Switch Preferences from Women to Men
That leaves you in one of the smallest possible target audiences for... well... just about anything