Courtesy of OSWeekly.com

(Column) - You know, I think OS X has been temporarily pushed to the side right now because I've heard more discussion about Windows running on Macs then even before. It's almost like OS X has been slightly taken for granted ever since the news of the Windows arrival took place. You'd think that the big Leopard preview would have commanded exclusive attention, and it has to some extent, but at the same time, some users have shrugged it off and moved on to the Microsoft side of things.

Apple is to blame for this, at least to some extent. They just had to go and release Boot Camp, didn't they? By the way, please don't take my sarcastic tone as an expression of my dissatisfaction for the product. I think it's great, and I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp. I know that users have bombarded them with requests for officially allowing Windows usage on a Mac, and the fact that they yielded to these requests is interesting because they've emphasized the OS X and Windows experiences as being completely separate for quite some time.

Just think for a moment about all of the jokes and jabs that Apple has served up to Microsoft over the years and you don't even have to do too much mental exercise to remember the latest occurrence of poke-funnery that Apple made at Vista during the WWDC. Boy, for something that they speak so badly of and accuse of ripping them off, they sure are in a hurry to let you run it side by side with their offering. Why is this? Well, it's all in the numbers.

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