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This would be hilarious - Apple selling a better version of Windows than Microsoft's.
1 posted on 04/21/2006 2:25:56 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

IBM already tried this. Microsoft simply tweaked the memory model and broke the compatibility.


2 posted on 04/21/2006 2:28:16 PM PDT by B Knotts
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To: HAL9000
but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5

The Windows API!!!

Just off hand that doesn't make any sense to me. Could there possibly be a Windows API? Windows is a large and complicated system not just a group of software defined interfaces. I'm not a programmer (at least not a real one) so go gently on me if I'm way off base here.

5 posted on 04/21/2006 4:22:17 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: HAL9000

... or Apple selling an OS with all the vulnerabilities of Windows AND Mac machines ...


7 posted on 04/21/2006 5:30:57 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: HAL9000
primarily because most users will already have XP licenses they can transfer

Maybe. A lot of people get licenses via OEM, and IIRC those are getting pretty restrictive these days.

11 posted on 04/24/2006 11:31:36 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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