Eric's Rants

Robert X. Cringely offers an intriguing reason behind Apple's recent strategy of Boot Camp: '... 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...by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5.' Note: The day Apple announced they were moving to the Intel processors I said to various colleagues the reason for this was to support Windows applications natively within Mac OS X. I would initially presented the case with the "virtualization" argument, e.g. VM Ware. Cringely presents an interesting realization in running Windows XP apps by way of native Windows API support within Mac OS X.

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