Why not? Apple figured out a way to give its users access to windows cant microsoft, with its billions of dollars, find a way to do the vica versa?
Who the heck is going to use Macs is they are not compatible with Microsoft Office. What do you expect the world to use? Apple Word? iPowerpoint? iPublisher? iExcel? Yes... Apple grows strongly nowadays because of Microsoft.
http://www.apple.com/iwork/ http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004
Apple did not figure out a way, it is Microsoft desicion. Bill Gates is a genius by giving apple users to access windows they could increase the sales on their OS. Basically every Mac Sold = Windows OS SOLD.
Fundamental flaw with that. Most mac users are NOT going to want to support windows. Most friends happen to have a windows cd on hand
Apple wouldn't allow it. They delibrately make their system incompatible, whereas Microsoft are quite happy to sell theirs to Mac users. If Microsoft suddenly decided not to allow Windows use on a Mac then Apple's new found argument of "You can do anything on a Mac that can be done on Windows" would vanish into thin air. As do most pc users , but they will eventually have to buy new copies if they want to run the latest versions.
Who would pay for windows? I have a slimmed down version of xp pro sp2 on my macbook which I rarely use.
Vista/XP/Microsoft are better supported when it comes to games/gaming than MAC. This is the main thing for me that matters. Vista + DirectX10 for gaming greatness > MAC with er.. iLife
This is true Apple should make more generic software so Microsoft can be compatible with it, without having to rework everything
logylaps, windows is 100 times more compatible than any OS apple has ever released. The reason windows works on mac hardware is because windows has the compatibility not the other way around. Also Microsoft does not make the hardware they just make sure their OS works on it like apple should do but don't. And you can install OSX on most other hardware but it takes some hacking, so its not even the problem that there are no drivers. Just apple want you to buy their "OVER PRICED" hardware...
Then they can stay as they are, the minority. The thing is, you can't. So you are endorsing illegal activities? Most people who value having legitimate software (i.e. Anyone who actually uses it regularly as their main OS)
It will, but Microsoft ain't going anywhere in the near future. Play games, use the vast majority of software, upgrade their pc. To it's OK to illegally download software from companies you don't like? In the same way that it's OK to steal from the supermarket that you don't like? Meaning that as Microsoft have the far larger market share people will continue still paying for windows whether directly or indirectly.
First, all game developers would have to move off of PC and mainly develop on MAC (lol, only blizzard still does it, 2 popular (ports of there PC counterparts ) games for macs: BF2142, World of Warcraft. On top of that, if it started happening, Microsoft would stop porting their software to it and leave it up to the mac guys to develop one.
Exactly. If Apple piss of developers then it could well be the the developers will stop developing things for mac. People don't have to make a version for Mac because they can still sell far more on Windows than they will on Mac.
The simple point why Apple has the blade and the developers the handle. Why should I as a developer go thought the terror we know as Steve Jobs to get a few hundred sales? You want to know if the main users of that product is mac or Windows? Check out the plugins and extensions available. In the case of Adobe, Avid, Microsoft Office, Alias 80% or more are Windows only.....although these companies like to advertise their products using mac os.
Couldn't agree more, but most people want Macs because they're pretty and they like the commercials; they're not too concerned about plugins for the programs. In any case, all of the cross-platform compatibility will come when and if Apple's market share increases, but as of right now Windows is still the logical choice.