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Windows is the clear winner in terms of market share, and Apple knows that those who are envious of the Mac hardware will be more inclined to purchase it if they can run Windows (their relied upon operating system of choice). The suits at Apple may try to innocently play this off like you can run Windows and OS X separately and without interference, but you know as well as I do that they're hoping Windows users will begin to spend a little time with OS X, become hooked, and then essentially ditch their former love. It almost sounds like a soap opera when you put it that way, huh?

Whatever their real intentions may be, the official solution from Apple is just one in a sea of many from other companies. If you think we've seen a lot of virtualization software/ideas for Intel Macs now, then just wait until you see what comes down the road in the future. Once developers have had more time with these machines, I'm sure we'll see even more innovative ways to run Windows, Linux, and the applications that belong to those operating systems.

I've enjoyed watching Microsoft's response to all of this, because there really hasn't been much of one. They have enough to worry about with Vista, and I think they're happy as can be that efforts are being made for them to get their OS out to the "others." They haven't complained about what's going on, and to be honest, I think these Mac developments have been the best press that they've received in a long time. Negativity is abundant on the PC side of things because of Vista issues, but everyone seems thrilled with Microsoft's appearance on the Mac scene. Who would have thunk it?

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