Users who install Mac OS X on non supported hardware (PCs) are breaking the EULA and Microsoft would have to break Apple's software restrictions to make it easy for Windows users to install Mac OS X on their PCs.
Where Microsoft's OS was designed to be used on all x86 PCs, Apple's was only designed to be used on Apple PCs. Microsoft should be thrilled that they can sell Windows to just about every computer owner now. Apple with their Power PC boxes was just about the last hold out that didn't have the option of running Windows. Now that Microsoft can claim even more market share by allowing Mac users to run Windows, why wouldn't they be happy? Their harshest critics (Mac users) are now becoming customers! I doubt they will have a problem with Boot camp at all.
I saw this as more of an offensive act on Apple's part than anything. It had been said recently that "Apple and Microsoft are in disagreement about how the new Virtual PC should act."
Just figured Apple finally said "Fuck you, we'll do it ourselves."
There's nothing wrong with Microsoft continuing to develop Virtual PC. In fact, if they could make Virtual PC take advantage of Apple's hardware natively in a 'virtual session' (3D Graphics card support, processor support, had Windows detect the optical drives, recognize PCI cards, etc.), I think that it would be one of the best selling Mac apps out there. It would mean that Boot Camp was not needed as Mac users wouldn't need to boot into Windows since they could open the app they need in a VPC window.
If Microsoft could one up Parallels like this, they'd probably sell a copy of VPC and Windows to 50%+ of the Intel Mac user base, I think the attach rate would be very high.
Don't forget. Microsoft does NOT make computers. They are primarily a software company with their main software being Winodws OS and Microsoft Office. So it actually HELPS Microsoft to be selling more copies of Winodws OS than before.
As Apple makes both an OS and a computer, but computer sales are the main business within the company (excluding iPod of course) allowing Dell or eMachine to sell 300$ POS machines with Mac OS X would take greatly away from Apple's revenue.
In the near future as Macs become more popular (this is assuming they will...as they have been the past few years), both Apple and Microsoft markets will grow. This is because as Apple's market grows and the pure Windows/PC market shrinks, people will still want Microsoft on their new Mac.
But, Eventually people will use Mac OS X more and more, and subsequently Windows less and less untill the Mac market is fairly large and those with windows are people who need it for a specific reason only. Then again, if the Mac market increases as much as described above, games and business/enterprise software will be more available for the Mac, elimiating the need for windows.
Nothing stopping Microsoft from playing the same game.
- Xidius
Unfortunately for your hypothesis, there's little MS can do as far as getting Mac OS X to boot on a PC. For starters, the PC needs to have EFI, which from what I've heard is no longer part of Vista. Secondly, the PC needs to go through whatever security policy a Mac goes through at boot, and that's burned into ROM. Unlike MS, Apple doesn't tell people how to get Mac OS X running on arbitrary hardware.
Hacking it out of ROM is a clear violation of DMCA, and, if you ask me, one of the few productive elements of the DMCA.
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Where Microsoft's OS was designed to be used on all x86 PCs, Apple's was only designed to be used on Apple PCs. Microsoft should be thrilled that they can sell Windows to just about every computer owner now. Apple with their Power PC boxes was just about the last hold out that didn't have the option of running Windows. Now that Microsoft can claim even more market share by allowing Mac users to run Windows, why wouldn't they be happy? Their harshest critics (Mac users) are now becoming customers! I doubt they will have a problem with Boot camp at all.
I saw this as more of an offensive act on Apple's part than anything. It had been said recently that "Apple and Microsoft are in disagreement about how the new Virtual PC should act."
Just figured Apple finally said "Fuck you, we'll do it ourselves."
- Xidius
If Microsoft could one up Parallels like this, they'd probably sell a copy of VPC and Windows to 50%+ of the Intel Mac user base, I think the attach rate would be very high.
As Apple makes both an OS and a computer, but computer sales are the main business within the company (excluding iPod of course) allowing Dell or eMachine to sell 300$ POS machines with Mac OS X would take greatly away from Apple's revenue.
In the near future as Macs become more popular (this is assuming they will...as they have been the past few years), both Apple and Microsoft markets will grow. This is because as Apple's market grows and the pure Windows/PC market shrinks, people will still want Microsoft on their new Mac.
But, Eventually people will use Mac OS X more and more, and subsequently Windows less and less untill the Mac market is fairly large and those with windows are people who need it for a specific reason only. Then again, if the Mac market increases as much as described above, games and business/enterprise software will be more available for the Mac, elimiating the need for windows.
Originally posted by >_>
You heard it here first.
Nothing stopping Microsoft from playing the same game.
- Xidius
Harakiri!
Originally posted by >_>
You heard it here first.
Nothing stopping Microsoft from playing the same game.
- Xidius
Unfortunately for your hypothesis, there's little MS can do as far as getting Mac OS X to boot on a PC. For starters, the PC needs to have EFI, which from what I've heard is no longer part of Vista. Secondly, the PC needs to go through whatever security policy a Mac goes through at boot, and that's burned into ROM. Unlike MS, Apple doesn't tell people how to get Mac OS X running on arbitrary hardware.
Hacking it out of ROM is a clear violation of DMCA, and, if you ask me, one of the few productive elements of the DMCA.