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.Apple and Microsoft in cahoots again
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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1-11-2006 @ 11:24AM
Steven said...
Unfortunetly, this was announced by Roz Ho (shudder).. She has to be the most annoying person on the planet.
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1-11-2006 @ 11:37AM
tom said...
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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1-11-2006 @ 12:00PM
Yogz said...
it's no, Tom
Windows on a Mac => yes
MacOSX on a PC => no
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1-11-2006 @ 2:57PM
Joid said...
So my expensive Photoshop CS for Windows can be installed now also on the new Mac?
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1-11-2006 @ 3:42PM
Steven said...
Joid - not unless you have Windows installed and install it on the Windows partition (or however that works).
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