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Windows Applications On Mac, Without Windows
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dongmin said:
...yes. its a joke. its also a photoshopped (or whatever) image.
The version of the operating system is his punchline.
Funny, no?
...but definitely obviously faked.
This sounds like the best solution, it is low cost and no $ to MS.
Apple more than likely will use WINE for their own 10.5 capabilites and will be more integrated.
Most people only need a few window apps to run in order to live in the current windows world, but ........... that is changing, here comes Apple and the new Macs!!!!!!!
Apple more than likely will use WINE for their own 10.5 capabilites and will be more integrated.
Most people only need a few window apps to run in order to live in the current windows world, but ........... that is changing, here comes Apple and the new Macs!!!!!!!
paj said:
OS/2 would have lived if Microsoft hadn't illegaly used their monopoly-powers..
OS/2 rocked!
I'm surprised more companies haven't tried to develop this sooner. I think it'll be a great benefit for mac users to natively run windows apps. Most people only need the apps from the windows world, not the OS. I think this has the potential to boost mac OS's up because people will be able to use their windows apps they need for work, while running OS X.
...Unless Apple is planning on naming their OS 11 versions after sprouts.dongmin said:
"Oh, and one more thing... Here's Mac OS 11.0 'Alfalfa!' "
I'm sure they are but... no matter how many people you have on a development team, things take time. I'm sure an app that seamlessly virtualizes (or whatever the term is) Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS X would take a long time to code and develop.Collin973 said:
...because it is hard to do and support.Collin973 said:
It is very hard to implement something like WINE that even has a chance to run a handful of applications well (really WINE sucks for stability in experience). Also with Vista coming out WINE has a lot to catch-up with in new Windows APIs if they want to continue to run the next generation of Windows applications.
Also currently the WINE ports to Mac OS X suck since they usually depend on X11 for windowing and display.
Yeah, but you'd be stuck with OS X and their stupid cat names.mcarnes said:
Sprouts are the way to go.
Hector said:
WOW!!! You can read and follow instructions
http://dustin.waterfallsw.com/2006/06/how-to-create-your-own-leopard.html
Something like this will NEVER become part of the standard OS from Apple, and here's why: no incentive to develop Mac apps.
Application development is, first and foremost, a business. It makes no business sense to develop for two platforms when you can develop for one platform and know it will run on all platforms. Love of Mac has nothing to do with this -- it's economics. There will be die-hard Mac fans that will continue writing for the Mac platform, but the big guys will be quick to abandon it for sound business reasons.
I hope this never becomes a part of OS X, or the Mac will be dead as a viable alternative to Windows.
Application development is, first and foremost, a business. It makes no business sense to develop for two platforms when you can develop for one platform and know it will run on all platforms. Love of Mac has nothing to do with this -- it's economics. There will be die-hard Mac fans that will continue writing for the Mac platform, but the big guys will be quick to abandon it for sound business reasons.
I hope this never becomes a part of OS X, or the Mac will be dead as a viable alternative to Windows.
chris200x9 said:
Trojans, maybe.
Viruses exploit holes in Windows- which isn't running.
Trojans are just evil programs. They might run. Hopefully they are some of the programs that aren't compatible
And in all likelyhood unless specificly designed to hurt Macs they wouldn't affect the Mac side of things (they can't install themselves into OS X or set themselves to come out on boot, they probably can't wipe your HFS partition, and they won't know where to access your stored passwords/credit card info/etc that you told your Mac to store because it'll be looking for Windows' stuff.Anyway, I don't know why people are voting this as negative. If you don't want it, don't use it, but for people with lots of Windows only apps who can't afford to go buy a seperate Mac versions, this is the perfect excuse to switch.
Question: Which would run faster the PPC version of Photoshop running under Rosetta or the Windows versin of PS running under Wine? My gueess is The Winddows version would run twice as fast. Same for Office.