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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
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?
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.
Your third point is redundant (see second point).