As I was skimming the headlines this morning, something odd caught my eye. For the most part, I’ll skip blithely over stories related to Boot Camp—been there, done that, ad nauseam. The top headline, “Apple opens a few new Windows,” was innocuous enough—yes, yes, a clever play on words, Associated Press; your wit never fails to amuse—but it was the slug below that made me do a double take: “Two upcoming programs will allow Mac users to run IBM software.”
IBM software? IBM software? Okay, sure, IBM does still make software solutions, but mostly server stuff, not desktop. When was the last time anybody, besides my grandmother—she’s a sharp old gal—referred to a PC as an “IBM-compatible?” They’ve been out of the PC business for a year or so now, having sold that arm of their operation to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo.
So, hey, AP, come join the rest of us in the 21st century, huh?
