Windows on Apple computer? Food for thought....

Steve has decided to make a new transition from Power PC to Intel processors. After so many years of ridiculing Intel, Jobs has finally understood that Intel processors are indeed powerful in performance. Jobs claims his company has been secretly working on a version OS X that is processor independent compiling the operating system source code with every release to make universal binaries.

Steve says Rossetta and Xcode 2.1 will help Mac OS X applications work on Intel processors without any problem, but with a little performance loss.

Now that Mac is on Intel processors, I guess Apple could increase its hardware market share if it lets users to install windows. I think allowing users to install Windows on a Mac has many advantages for apple. People have always loved the Mac for its kool and creative designs. If they can install windows (may be a dual boot with Mac OS X), I beleive people will slowly migrate to OS X given more exposure and the ability to compare the two operating systems. Guess what, every time windows freezes or gets chocked up with spyware users are more prone to boot to OS X.

But Steve will never allow windows to run on Mac, because the power of Mac lies mostly on the OS X operating system.