arstechnica.com — Don't trash your Boot Camp drive just yet, but Leopard could contain the early signs of running Windows apps in Mac OS X after all. While the evidence is telling, we encourage you not to hold your breath just yet.
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000dom000Nov 30, 2007
ok, I thought mac could do everything.
greenalienDec 1, 2007
"Then no one will ever write a mac app again...."Of course they will. The Mac API is the best available. If there is a Windows app, A linux app, or a Mac app with Core Animation and native look 'n' feel I know which one I'd buy.
gansito87Dec 1, 2007
OMG, I thought I was the only one who had Leopard fail on them time after time. I'm currently on hold with AppleCare, looking for some justice.There's no way I'm settling for a 3-week old laptop failing on me.
colincornabyDec 1, 2007
Microsoft signed a patent sharing agreement with Apple. Apple has rights to anything patented as part of Win32. Not to mention... this has already been done by WINE...
Closed AccountDec 1, 2007
Oh you mac fanboys; according to you windows apps are all buggy huh?
ichainsawDec 1, 2007
I will s**t my pants if it is able to run my free 3d aquarium screensaver that i downloaded. I still can't get that thing to work :(
mrbitchDec 1, 2007
Zing!
Closed AccountDec 1, 2007
Automatically buried for "*yawn*".
dannyarcherDec 2, 2007
How about the more interesting fact that apple could bring cocoa to windows, whenever they want to...
benzillarDec 3, 2007
hope open source softwares prosperous with it.
buzzfriendlyDec 4, 2007
True but Microsoft doesn't control your hardware. There is no reason I should not be able to legally run OSX on a HP, Dell or a custom box.
kriswaMar 14, 2008
lesser hardware is true, if you look at value for money, but with OSX on Intel, anyone can build a cheap hackintosh on standard PC hardware, and buy OSX for it at a fraction of the price of (legit) Windows. not only that, but OSX is infinitely more stable and reliable (thank the Apple Nazis I guess) than Vista... at least until some serious Mac malware is released.True there are less programs, but if you evaluate the proportion of software that is truly usable and worthwhile.. the field really narrows substantially, (just look on Download.com -- for every thousand Windows programs, there's typically only one or two that work properly and are worth the money you pay for them). while OSX has it's share of trash, the vast majority of top selling applications (written decades ago before Microsoft Windows had the lions' share of the computer market), and are available for both OSX and Windows.there are notable exceptions, one being everything that comes out of Autodesk's shining hole -- they seek to dominate the graphics industry by acquisition of all their biggest competitors, in the process ensuring all future applications run only in Windows (to what agenda ?) -- and they are succeeding at that whilst making the most widely pirated applications (whoever said piracy costs the software industry ?)... while it's a pity it's not yet supported on OSX, SLI / Crossfire are of dubious value to performance in anything other games playing / development, and even then it's little more than a penny-saving gimmick. from the several dozen Mac users I know, upgrading the OS seems to generally only be done when they decide to replace their well-worn computer with a new one. conversely, Windows users are often so keen to upgrade from their current despised Windows version they conveniently forget that a hardware upgrade is almost guaranteed to be needed as well, and then suffer the monstrous slowdowns, incompatibility and instability that follow as a result. the Microsoft-Intel-Autodesk deviant love-triangle has always forced us to upgrade OS/hardware/software all at once, rather than as needed, thanks to their inseparable nature.regretably, in my industry, we have no alternative but to use AutoCAD or Revit, (along with Office / CS3 / etc), (Vectorworks / ArchiCAD are only niche products outside of europe) which forces us all to stick with Windows. I and a growing majority of my peers would switch to greener pastures in a heartbeat if we could -- XP was pretty nasty, but Vista is nothing but a 'World of Pain' -- Linux / OSX / anything else ?
kriswaMar 14, 2008
spot on with OS/2, except that IBM pushed OS/2 too far as a software rather than hardware platform -- apple has always focused on hardware first -- the OS is secondary, so native apple apps will always keep coming as long as there is a performance / usability advantage over the X86-native version.