![]() This has been the focus of the open source WINE project, which seeks to give us the world of Windows software without Windows. This means launching programs written expressly for the Windows operating system alongside those written expressly for the Mac OS - getting the applications without the overhead of the frankly unwanted operating system, essentially. When Apple moved to Intel processors, my original hope was for native support for Windows applications inside the Mac OS itself. For the many users like myself who often need to work on two different platforms at once, it’s still not an ideal solution, nor does it truly mitigate the need to actually have two physical, separate computers on our desks. Through the lens of time and productivity, this is a costly decision-making process, and I can’t imagine swapping back and forth between Windows and Mac OS X more than once or twice a day. Boot Camp does nothing to mitigate the fact that dual booting is incredibly inconvenient, that a user must first make a modal shift in hardware to move from one operating system to the other. While I’m ecstatic about the idea of essentially getting two computers for the price of one with my next Macintosh purchase, I think dual booting is short of the ideal that I had in mind. On a third pass, a bit more sobriety nibbled away at my excitement. Every day.” He’s twice the man I would be in that situation, to say the least. His response was, “Every day is a trial, man. My second reaction was to email a friend who actually works inside the Apple Computer ‘mothership’ in Cupertino, CA, and ask him how he could ever keep a secret like Boot Camp - indeed how he manages to keep all of Apple’s juicy, expletive-inspiring product secrets - to himself. The world outside of Apple’s many legions of overboard devotees seems to think so, too: this afternoon, the Boot Camp story made it into the prized top-left slot on our home page at (I swear that I have no influence over such decisions), and when the market closed today, AAPL was up by over six dollars. syndrome that’s dogged the company like a lingering cough for years and years. ![]() This is a momentous move for Apple, something representing a real break from the nagging case of N.I.H. Here was my first reaction to Apple’s announcement that they are now officially enabling, if not supporting, the ability to boot Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system on their new, Intel-based hardware through a software utility they call Boot Camp: “Holy shit!”
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