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Re: Why Microsoft should fear Intel Macs

  • Subject: Re: Why Microsoft should fear Intel Macs
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:52:22 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Monday 17 July 2006 20:00 \__

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on 17 Jul 2006 10:12:15 -0700
> <1153156335.188553.177230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Quote:
>> ---------------
>> There has been much talk about the threat that Apple Macintosh
>> computers now pose to Windows PCs - or should we say Windows only PCs.
>> Make no mistake, the talk is well justified, as recent market research
>> shows. However, what hasn't been talked about as much is the very real
>> threat that Macs now pose to the Windows operating system itself.
>> ---------------
>> End quote
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4954/106/
>>
> 
> How does one threaten an OS?  Of course, in this case
> what the MacPCs are threatening is Microsoft's profits,
> as users start seeing what MacOSX can do for them --
> and how much better it can do so, in many cases.


The  Macs  seem  to  permit penetration  into  other,  newer
markets  (e.g.  portable  media players -> smart  phones  ->
PDA's),  which  Microsoft  relies on  for  expansion.  Other
companies such as Sony (media, gaming) pose a similar threat
to Microsoft's expansion. If you don't expand, you diminish.
Microsoft  knows it, which is why it has gone (/is going) as
far as home entertainment and television.


> A good move on Apple's part, although us here in COLA land
> might not think all that much of it since Linux is already
> doing much of what OSX can do on unmodified x86 platforms. ;-)


Apple's  main  deterrent  is  cost. Not everyone  is  a  Web
designer  whose investment in a computer has great impact on
income.


> But hey, the more the merrier.  One disappointment I
> have with this device is that the MacPC apparently cannot
> handle, for various silly reasons related to partitioning,
> more than three three operating systems (MacOSX, Windows,
> and Linux) -- although one could do various things like
> UML and VmWare in a pinch.


There  is Parallels and Boot Camp. You can run all three _in
tandem_.  *smile*  it's yet to become a selling  point  with
great impact.

Best wishes,

Roy

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