“Dual-boot machines are still clunky, but portend an interesting future in which virtualization frees applications from operating systems. Now that Apple has rescinded its past distaste of all things Windows and is allowing the Macintosh to share space (albeit a walled-off one) with Windows, shouldn’t the company just go all the way? All the way would be licensing Dell, HP and Lenovo to run OS X on the Windows systems leaving their factories,” Eric Lundquist writes for eWeek. “The dual-boot system is really interesting more for what it portends than for what it is today.”
“And a lot of that portending is built around the idea of virtualization. Virtualization is a topic we have reported on quite a bit, including coverage of Dell’s chief technology officer talking about client virtualization and new products aimed at a more elegant solution to working with the Mac and Windows (and Linux, et al.) such as Parallels,” Lundquist writes. “In a truly virtualized computing environment, the application will rule. If an application requires extra-strength security or a specific operating system, the application will call for the operating system without regard to where the OS resides… In the virtual operating system world, users can work with the system that best fits them and their corporate needs rather than being handcuffed to a proprietary environment. And that is the most important message that Apple’s Boot Camp dual-operating system software delivers.”
Full article here.
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“Should Apple just go all the way and license Mac OS X to Dell, HP, Lenovo, others?”
No.
Apple should NOT license OSX to third parties!
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No. and it won’t happen either..
The first step that Steve Jobs took in turning Apple around when he came back as CEO was taking back control of the Mac OS..
No. Doing so is unnecessary. What they need to do is stay damn good at what they do.
For every Goliath there comes a David. Better Apple than someone else.
Nah, if I want to run Mac OS X I’ll use a Mac. Screw the nightmare of letting Dell mess with it.
This whole Mac thing is just getting too weird. The switch to Intel was very hard to take but that is nothing compared to Windows on Mac and Mac OS on Dells.
Is all this a sign of the second coming?
Can you hear me Jesus?
I repent! When she said,”NO! STOP!” I should have listened.
Please forgive me Jesus!
Why would PC box makers want a OS that is being phased out?
Get over it: Maharishi Steve’s customer base has become headbangers.
Download some more tunes and forget about what might have been.
No! NO! NOO! Why would I want Apple on my Dell? Even Apple has admitted it is better run Windows, and from the news, it does it faster than it does OS X!
Will not happen…not in Steve’s DNA to do so.
People should NOT link their unrelated sh!t here. There are enough ads here already.
hmmm let me think about that…. HELL No!
People seem to forget that running Windows natively on a Mac was possible years ago with that dual-processor Performa.
C’mon people it’s not the end of the world. The vast majority of users won’t run two OSes.
Most two-OS users on a Mac will be those people who have to run a Windows only application such as AutoCAD.
And i do think some curious Windows users will see this as an opportunity to see what this Mac thing is all about.
“Dual-boot machines are still clunky”
Still?
Now, no.
Baby steps to OS X everywhere WITHOUT bloatware!
that’s some pathetic useless trolling there! why so scared, ipso facto? choose the wrong OS? good news: you can still switch to Mac.
Has anyone noticed how MacDude and truth hurts both type their statements line by line?
like this is one thing they type
then they follow it up with something dumber
etc etc.
Truth hurts is MacDude..
Just ignore him, nothing irks a troll more than being ignored..
Really, what exactly is the criteria to be a tech expert and write columns like this? I could be sitting at home in my underwear all day and writing stupid drivel like this and be getting paid. I really can’t understand how these tech pundits can’t understand that the goal is to take away the last excuse not to buy a Mac from those fencepost switchers out there. This eases their mind, allows them to switch safely, and then they are blown away by OS X and turn into Mac zombies like us.
I don’t believe it will happen overnight, but once the number of Mac zombies reaches critical mass the migration away from Windoze will happen much faster than anyone ever thought possible. Obviously this is like watching history in the making since I think Boot Camp and Parellels opens some serious floodgates for switching. The interesting side note will be how MS will issue a “patch” that suprisingly impedes that ability of XP run on a Mac. Is there anyone who doesn’t see this coming?
Release it for 5 years… make sure everybody loves it, and then… BAM! Now, only apple sells it again.
Easiest way for Mac purists to keep the faithful in line is of course to quickly develop a virus, no matter how benign, that is capable of doing something (anything) to OSX after infecting Windows.
Typical Mac freak is so terrified of the idea of viruses that they’ll remove Windows and never return.
It won’t work the other way, though. The Winfolk are desensitized to the whole thing. They’re hardy that way.
No,
To do so would sacrafice a serious advantage the Mac now has; it can run any OS of your choosing or all of them. Apple should leverage this and as a result will sell a lot more Apple computers. Selling hardware is where they make their money, not selling the OS. Soon, a Mac will be the most configurable computer system made and will give you the ultimate freedom of choice. What do you all care if people run windows on Apple hardware? Apple will continue to develop and improve OS X and as a result of it’s superior experiance more folks will start using it, and with more market share Apple will attract more developers ect.
Why would Microsoft offer a patch the impedes the ability to run XP on a Mac?
Microsoft is happy about BootCamp… Apple has just become one more vendor for them to sell their OS to.
NO!!
They would loose their advantage of being the only computer that can run the two most popular operating systems.
Microsoft doesn’t care if they sell Windblows to Dell, HP, Sony or now Apple.
It’s all just $$$ to them.
I’d hate to see them license it to other companies. Apple has full control over what OSX is, and how it’s setup. What I’d love to see is if they offer it on software shelves separated from Apple hardware. I like making my own boxes because they’re a lot cheaper than Apple, but there’s no legal way to run OSX on it.