Native MS Windows on G5!!!!!

[Spock]

Who runs Apple? Do You really think Steve would let Microsoft put Windows on his baby?

 

[DaYC-Ent]

my last stupid question... (for this thread, at least)

Who is Steve?

...wait, nevermind. my coffee kicked in.

 

[jonapete2001]

Originally posted by Spock
Who runs Apple? Do You really think Steve would let Microsoft put Windows on his baby?

i doubt this is a true rumor, but stever jobs would have no say in the matter. If Bill Gates wanted to create windows for mac he could. All he would have to do is create and ship the disk. just like linux for mac. There are many distros of linux that run natively on mac, steve has no control of what people install on THIER system.

If you meant would it be factory installed at the apple plant, no steve would not allow this, but that is the extent of his control over a purchased computer.

 

[SiliconAddict]

Not a chance in ........

Originally posted by jonapete2001


This is what he told me. He said that now that MS owns virtual PC and the old Virtual Pc in not supported by the G5 that MS will be porting windows over to run on the mac. He said that it will not install seperatly that the mac os but run on top of it just like virtual pc for x86. He claimed that it would be ppc native and run at full system speed because their would be no hardware emulation.

Has anyone heard this or is this apple tech just messed up in the head. I think it might be a true possibility?

I think your tech was on crack. MS is tightly designed around the i386 instruction set and even more tightly designed around intel's CPU's (Don't think AMD ain't fuming about that.) It would be a monumental effort to redesign windows and then have every app ever created for windows recompiled all in the name of pleasing, what?, 2-3% market share. Not going to happen. The amount of effort involved would be way higher then just redoing VPC to be compatible with the G5

Then again I may be wrong.....
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He was full of something else not crack.

 

[SiliconAddict]

Originally posted by Spock
Who runs Apple? Do You really think Steve would let Microsoft put Windows on his baby?

jonapete2001 is right. Apple has no say in what OS I load onto the hardware just like Dell, Gateway, or IBM has any say. Even if I was in any contractual agreement I can just about guarantee that there is no way in hell it would stand up in court. Unlike the OS where you don't actually own the code the hardware is yours to do with as you please. If you want to install Windows, why? , you can.