Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Office, Apple, Microsoft
Apple and Microsoft in cahoots again
by Jordan Running Jan 11th 2006 at 11:15AM
Largely lost in the shuffle among yesterday's flurry of Mac news was this bit: Microsoft and Apple have signed a five-year
pact in which Apple agrees not to prevent users from installing Windows on their Intel Macs and Microsoft agrees to
keep making Office apps for OS X. The first part is cool, but the second seems strange, what with Apple announcing an
update to its iWork office suite. According to Macworld, though, the pact is "about reassuring the public," and if
you think about it, five years really isn't that long.
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Steven said 11:24AM on 1-11-2006
Unfortunetly, this was announced by Roz Ho (shudder).. She has to be the most annoying person on the planet.
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tom said 11:37AM on 1-11-2006
my question is, will i be able to go to the store, purchase Tiger for Intel, and install it on my Windows pc?
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Yogz said 12:00PM on 1-11-2006
it's no, Tom
Windows on a Mac => yes
MacOSX on a PC => no
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Joid said 2:57PM on 1-11-2006
So my expensive Photoshop CS for Windows can be installed now also on the new Mac?
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Steven said 3:42PM on 1-11-2006
Joid - not unless you have Windows installed and install it on the Windows partition (or however that works).
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