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Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the predictiontastic dept.

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.'

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  1. Re:What's the incentive to write a program for OS by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 0, Troll

    what's the incentive to build $fantastic_product when you can just use $garbage anyway?

  2. Why would anybody.... by geoff+lane · · Score: 0, Troll
    ...buy Apple hardware to run Windows? Apple h/w is more expensive and doesn't appear to provide any better performance for the additional cost.

    Now running OSX (or some replacement ) on a standard PC has some merit, but why would Apple chose to lose revenue by not selling the hardware?

    Microsoft does have some apps that people (for some bizzare reason) seem to like so running some kind of emulation may make sense. But far more interesting is for Apple to start using a fully virtualised x86-like CPU and run both OSX and Windows on top of a Hypervisor.

  3. Re:That would actually be the major reason not to by happyemoticon · · Score: 0, Troll

    I suspect even big fish like Adobe would stop porting. Their apps already look like shit in OS X - I still see the old spinning hourglass icon, so I think this means they're sitting on a ton of legacy code which they have deemed is not worth porting to the more modern APIs. I find it hard to imagine that they'd look worse in a compatibility layer scenario. Add to that the fact that they're basically telling any Intel/Mac user to screw themselves and wait for the next $900 copy of photoshop. And do you recall why Apple makes Final Cut Pro? Because Adobe flatly refused to port its video software to OS X. Hmm.

    Seriously, Adobe's just waiting for an excuse to drop Mac support entirely.