Bob Cringely offers an intriguing reason behind Apple’s recent strategy of Boot Camp. I believe that Apple will offer Windows Vista as an option for those big customers who demand it, but I also believe that Apple will offer in OSX 10.5 the ability to run native Windows XP applications with no copy of XP installed on the machine at all. This will be accomplished not by using compatibility middleware like Wine, but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OSX 10.5
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