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March 11, 2006

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Microsoft: Apple Could Be an OEM

Posted Mar. 11, ’06, 10:19 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Business

iMacIt may have been a slow day for Mac fans in the US yesterday, but the boys from Britain have been tearing it up. First they bring us reports that Apple UK is declaring the 20” iMac G5 End of Life, and now they bring us this interesting tidbit, from an otherwise rote article on Apple’s switch to Intel.

Microsoft, however, said it would have no problem granting a Windows licence to Apple, in exactly the same way it currently provides licences to Dell and HP.
‘Just like all Microsoft’s OEMs, Apple can build industry-standard hardware that’s compatible with Windows; Microsoft has an open specification and a process for certifying the hardware,’ said a Microsoft spokesman. ‘Microsoft would support Apple the same way it supports every other PC manufacturer.’
Yes, yessss. “Come into my parolor,” said the spider to the fly.

I don’t see this scenario as likely, but it probably behooves Microsoft to play the benevolent dictator of PC-land. Then again, stranger things have happened.

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