Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] and now you can run XP *under* Mac OS X...

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/6/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> I would think that the investor would be seeing boot camp as a way to
> move Windows users off of Windows altogether.  This will be great
> for Apple, of course, but I think it is also good for Linux and FreeBSD.
> It will even be good for Windows users because it will start to make
> Microsoft less complacent about their monopoly status.

The chip-level virtualization technology being used here (which I
think is new with Yonah) could probably be used to play the same trick
with Linux of *BSD.  Right now, that's a minority of the intel
processors out there (and I don't think it includes AMD right now),
but I think this is the wave of the future.

As far as Microsoft's complacency goes, I think we see signs already
that they are waking up some.  They are losing (just a tiny bit now)
market share in the desktop OS market, they already lost substantial
share in the browser market, and while MS Office is still a
juggernaut, I have a feeling that the next versioh of OpenOffice.org
could become a serious issue for them.  I'm not a huge fan of
OpenOffice (it's still kludgey and sluggish), but they've made real
progress, and there's a lot in store for 3.0.

In the mean time, Vista is going to be even later, and there is
definitely a growing window for some people, especially laptop users,
to say "screw it; I'll just run my legacy XP stuff under the VM."

jking

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