April 22, 2006
Cringely says Leopard will run Windows apps natively
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 10:04 AM
Category | Software » XP on Mac
People right now are going crazy over Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation being able to run Windows on the Intel Macs. But what if there was something even better, a way to run the vast array of Windows programs without actually having to run the virus-prone Windows OS? Well, before you get to excited, there isn't, or at least not yet. Robert X. Cringely believes that OS X 10.5 will be able to run Windows programs natively on OS X via the Windows API. Cringely even says that this implantation of the Windows API on OS X is already being tested in Apple labs according to observations and demonstrations by people he's talked to. Hey, I'd be up for running a world of Windows software minus the virus-prone OS. Maybe this'll even be Jobs' main talking point at WWDC 2006. Maybe.
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That'd be nice, but wouldn't that make it pointless to make new apps for Macs. Companies would just make them for Windows and it could run on both, only leaving pre-10.5 users behind. Unless there were some worthy advantages to a Mac-spcific version, which is 99% likely.
Anyone disagree?
Posted by: Dan | April 22, 2006 10:36 AM
John Gruber's earning his full time blogger's pay. He has a rebuttal of Cringley's hypothesis up at Daring Fireball.
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April 22, 2006 10:44 AM