Will Apple adopt Windows?

Guardian Unlimited ^ | February 17 2006 | Jack Schofield

[theFIRMbss]

First I thought, No way!
But then I thought, well, Apple
needs people to talk.

Media wizards
then spin the talk Apple's way.
If Apple switches

that would get people
talking. Big time. That alone
might make Jobs do it!

[Michael Goldsberry]

LOL! No way!

[Right Wing Assault]

Well, MS has been "perfecting" Windows for many, many years. When the job is finally done, then maybe Apple will adopt. Maybe another 10-20 years.

[GrandEagle]

Just think, If they did then Apple too would just lock up from time to time requiring a reboot; with no one questioning why. Allpe users would just accept it like we do.
It is a really good thing MS doesn't make cars, we would all be walking!

[Michael Goldsberry]

like we do.

Not me. My workstations run either Linux or Solaris.

At least OS-X is BSD with frosting.

[the invisib1e hand]

there will be riots at starbucks everywhere if that happens.

seperately, as a PC user, I admire the way the Mac does its desktop. As far as I'm concerned, the artsy fartsy interface is the best thing Apple has going for it.

[The_Reader_David]

It's an absurd notion.

The whole point of Apple--at least since their main competition started to be on the software level--was always the superior OS, the hardware arm was just a matter of having a 'vertical trust' to be able to withstand pressure from MS's horizonatal trust strategy. (Of course, it's easy to forget that in the early days, the days of the 'why 1984 won't be like 1984' Superbowl ad, Apple's main competition was at the hardware level--they were the 'David' fighting IBM's 'Goliath'.)

They made one switch already--making OS X a MacOS style GUI built on the Free BDS core (a dialect of UNIX)--but that was to make an even better OS.

Putting Windows on a Mac is like retrofitting a '67 Pontiac dashboard into a 2006 5-series Bimmer.

[theFIRMbss]

>No way!

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[The Apple Blog]

[papertyger]

"The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun.

Burn the Blasphemer! Burn the Witch!

[freedumb2003]

Not me. My workstations run either Linux or Solaris.

Anyone remember "B"? An OS to challenge Linux or Windows or something like that?

And then there was Jobs's other computer/OS. Cube? Square?

[The_Reader_David]

My desktops at work run Linux, and at home I've got "BSD with frosting".

(Of course, as a category theorist, I've got a guild loyalty to Free BSD--the core was written by a categorist who went the CS route.)

[Michael Goldsberry]

professor of gynecology who wrote me convinced the process had already begun

Satire?

[theFIRMbss]

>The whole point of Apple . . . was always the superior OS

Apple's a biz-ness,
that's the whole point of Apple.
The biz-ness world's strange . . .

[papertyger]

As far as I'm concerned, the artsy fartsy interface is the best thing Apple has going for it.

You think the interface is smoove; you should set up the wireless network!

[big'ol_freeper]

Why would Apple want to adopt an operating system of such poor quality? Windows is total nightmare for users and completely visually unappealing. A move to Windows would be a total nightmare for all computer users because ALL innovation comes from Apple.

I think its more likely that Apple will begin selling computers with both operating systems on them, luring consumers into a side by side comparison where anybody with half a brain would, within a few months, realize how much better Mac OS X is and delete Windows.

[Michael Goldsberry]

*.BSD are very good OSs.

[Michael Goldsberry]

NeXT!?

*Snicker*

[OK]

The wife was looking at consumer ratings of laptops. The old model Apples had very high ratings, while the new ones with Intel parts were rated no better than mid level wintel laptops.

[Petronski]

Here's a previous discussion on a different article, same topic.

[Petronski]

...while the new ones with Intel parts were rated no better than mid level wintel laptops.

It's a little premature for that, since they've barely shipped.