Linked by Adam S on Wed 5th Apr 2006 12:57 UTC, submitted by Thomas Ganter
Mac OS X "More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today." My Take: Is this possible? We've been talking about virtualization on Leopard for a few days now, but did anyone see this coming?
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They're forced now
by MatzeB on Wed 5th Apr 2006 13:44 UTC
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Maybe their motivation was to get control back on this before too many people install bootmanagers and loaders created by 3rd parties on the internet. This way they can still do things like botting into OS/X by default and only booting the alternative WinXP when the Alt key is pressed down. I think defaults are very important to "influence" the behaviour of your users (as you can see with all these spyware apps changing the startpage of your browser...)