Monday, April 24, 2006
Multi-User Windows XP?
Just ran across this blog about turning your Windows XP into a multi-user version. Not sure if it works yet, but thought it's worth a try. Let me know if you get it working before I get a chance to try it..
http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2006/04/24/windows-xp-multiuser-remote-desktop/
http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2006/04/24/windows-xp-multiuser-remote-desktop/
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Mac OS X to become Open Source??
Wow.. I think Satan is a bit chilly today. Ask anyone even 1 year ago if they thought they'd see the day when Apple hardware would not only run Microsoft OS's..but be supported and encouraged, and I'm sure you'd be called a fool. Well, times change. Apple today released "Boot Camp", a free download from apple that gathers all of the necessary drivers and allows your Intel based Apple hardware to dual boot between OS X and Windows XP. Perhaps we should have seen this coming.. after all, both OS's have an X in their name. ;)
I find it rather ironic that this announcement comes just a few days after Apple's announcement that Man Behind OS X Leaves Apple Computer. Obviously, he wasn't too happy with Steve Jobs decision to support another OS. So now Apple has hardware that run's 2 OS's. What do you suppose their success rate will be in this area? My thought on the matter is that Apple has no desire to be an OS company. They haven't been for years. The majority of Apples profits have always come from their hardware. It's driven by the somewhat niche crowd that didn't want to cave into "the man" by buying standard ugly hardware from Dell or some other hardware manufacturer. Apple struck gold a few years ago with the release of the ipod. The suddenly had a business model that relied on selling music players, and more importantly, content to put on that player, than it did on Macs. This afforded them the opportunity that I think they have wanted for a while.. Get out of the OS business.
So what does the future hold for OS X? Now that apple's without a commander of the OS ship, and they are now supporting the Evil empires' OS, my belief is that it is only a matter of time before Apple completely abandons the OS, and in an effort to appear as the REALLY good guys of the computing world, will openly give away the OS X source code.. the underpinnings of which are already very largely based on freebsd anyway. This will put Apple in a position to be heralded as the next "Good Guys" of the computer industry. Everyone loves a good vs evil story, and it seems Google has held the riegns of "Good Guys" too long and the image is tarnishing. Apple is poising themselves to be the Knight in Shining Armour.. all by doing something they are more than happy to do.
I find it rather ironic that this announcement comes just a few days after Apple's announcement that Man Behind OS X Leaves Apple Computer. Obviously, he wasn't too happy with Steve Jobs decision to support another OS. So now Apple has hardware that run's 2 OS's. What do you suppose their success rate will be in this area? My thought on the matter is that Apple has no desire to be an OS company. They haven't been for years. The majority of Apples profits have always come from their hardware. It's driven by the somewhat niche crowd that didn't want to cave into "the man" by buying standard ugly hardware from Dell or some other hardware manufacturer. Apple struck gold a few years ago with the release of the ipod. The suddenly had a business model that relied on selling music players, and more importantly, content to put on that player, than it did on Macs. This afforded them the opportunity that I think they have wanted for a while.. Get out of the OS business.
So what does the future hold for OS X? Now that apple's without a commander of the OS ship, and they are now supporting the Evil empires' OS, my belief is that it is only a matter of time before Apple completely abandons the OS, and in an effort to appear as the REALLY good guys of the computing world, will openly give away the OS X source code.. the underpinnings of which are already very largely based on freebsd anyway. This will put Apple in a position to be heralded as the next "Good Guys" of the computer industry. Everyone loves a good vs evil story, and it seems Google has held the riegns of "Good Guys" too long and the image is tarnishing. Apple is poising themselves to be the Knight in Shining Armour.. all by doing something they are more than happy to do.
