Microsoft welcomes Apple’s Boot Camp software
April 8th, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 44 times, 1 so far today
Microsoft welcomes Apple’s Boot Camp software
Apple Computers recently shocked the tech world by launching a beta application called Boot Camp which now enables the owners of Intel powered Macintosh machines to dual boot Windows XP operating system.
Apple however has made it clear that they have no plans to support the XP operating system on Apple hardware and they are not discarding their own Mac OS X operating system product to concentrate on Windows Operating System.
Market analysts believe that the move would benefit Apple in the longer run as it would gain a lot more consumers who were previously afraid of buying a Mac, as they feared that they might end up requiring Windows software.
Microsoft has themselves welcomed this move from the iPod maker. Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft’s PC Windows business said in a statement: “Windows is a great operating system. We’re pleased that Apple customers are excited about running it and that Apple is responding to meet the demand.”
With Microsoft delaying the launch of the Windows Vista operating system till next year, it just might mean more sales for the Apple.
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April 8th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
First, the number of Mac users in total is so small that the number of them who go out and buy Windows will not sigificantly alter the numbers for MSFT.
Second, most of the interest in Windows on a Mac will be “at the margins”, e.g., the really teeny tiny number of people who really hate their WinTel PC; the communities of software developers and web developers; Mac users who waqnt to be gamers, which the Mac hardware is not really up to anyway.
The real shift in sales numbers would be if comporate and industrial I/T departments would specify Mac’s for theri companies. At teh cost difference, that “just ain’t gonna happen.”
However, if one looks at only the those who really hate their PC’s, a tiny number, just they alone could double or triple Mac sales, because Mac sales are so negligible.