More like Apple ripped off Xerox Windows and them MSFT did the same thing.
My iPod is highly overrated and overpriced. Anyone know if Mac emulation programs for running Windows programs on a Mac work well? Do you have to buy a copy of Windows for the Mac?
Xerox Windows? No such animal. Microsoft ripped off Apple, with the undisclosed-settlement-amount settled lawsuits to prove it.
You don’t need to emulate Windows on newer Macs, you can boot from either Windows or OS X. Other than old software, I don’t know why you’d want to do that, but do it you certainly can.
Myth. Apple paid Xerox $1 million dollars in Preferred stock for two, eight hour information visits (observation, demonstration, and Q&A) to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Apple's people took no code and their GUI is considerably different from PARC's small-talk interface. Apple has documentation of every step of the development because one of their engineers took Polaroid photos of the screens as they were developed. Apple had sub menus, overlapping windows, and other major differences that were purely developed by Apple which Xerox's GUI lacked.
Anyone know if Mac emulation programs for running Windows programs on a Mac work well?
They work exactly as well as they do on a Windows machine... it is not emulation, it is a virtual machine that runs 100% of Windows applications. Under Boot Camp, the computer is entirely a Windows XP, Vista, or Windows7 machine. Under Parallels or VMWare's Fusion, Windows runs under OS X transparently.
Do you have to buy a copy of Windows for the Mac?
For 100% Windows, yes, you need a Microsoft Windows full install disk and license. But many Windows apps will work under CrossOver Mac without a Windows license.
Compared to what?
Anyone know if Mac emulation programs for running Windows programs on a Mac work well? Do you have to buy a copy of Windows for the Mac?
Emulation is obsolete. We've moved on to virtualization, which is much better. The two products for running Windows and Mac OS X concurrently are Parallels and VMWare, which have both gotten good reviews.
Or you can use Apple's built-in Boot Camp to run Windows in native mode without Mac OS X.
Windows itself is not included with the Mac and so it would be necessary to purchase it, unless you already own a copy.
Yet another option is CrossOver Mac, which allows many Windows applications to run on the Mac without installing Windows at all. It is based on WINE, which performs a similar function for Linux computers, and it's less expensive and more secure than Windows. This is what I use on the rare occasions (once or twice a year) when I want to run a Windows app.
It's nice to have the capability to run Windows on a Mac, but I don't actually recommend doing so unless it is absolutely necessary. Avoiding Windows simplifies things for the user, who then doesn't have to worry about Windows viruses, spyware, and all of the other garbage associated with Microsoft products. Mac OS X alone can generally do a better job than Windows for most computer users.
if you find that your Ipod is over rated why did you waste the money to buy one?
everything works better on a MAC, The emulation Parallels (virtual machine) works very well and yes you have to buy MS windows if you are going to run it on a Mac,(I know its strange and unfeeling that evil MAC makes you pay for something you want to use) why would Apple give you another companies OS.
Apple paid Xerox handsomely for its tour of Xerox PARC. They gave Xerox stock and obtained their permission. M$ did neither.
Anyone know if Mac emulation programs for running Windows programs on a Mac work well?
It's not an emulator. Windows software runs natively on the Mac's Intel Core2 Duo or Quad-core processors. Boot Camp, which sets up a dual boot to Windows or Mac, works better than most Windows machines; with Apple's control over the hardware, you don't have issues with badly-written drivers.
The other option is a virtual machine, for which there are a couple of different products. There's a bit of a performance hit in running a virtual machine, because the system's resources are shared by two operating systems.
Do you have to buy a copy of Windows for the Mac?
If you want to run Windows on the Mac, you need a license. If you already have one, you can use it; Boot Camp and the virtual machines use out-of-the-box Windows (or Linux, or maybe even Solaris), not a special version for the Mac.
I use VMWare Fusion and am very happy with it.
Yes, you have to have a copy of Windows, any version.
My kids computer died, I replaced it with a Mac, loaded Fusion, used the Windows disks from their dead system, and have had no problems.
WARNING - Only some high end Windows games will run under Fusion. I have had better luck getting them to run on a Mac using Boot Camp.