Macs do Windows!

Apple has announced its public beta of Boot Camp; a free software that allows users to install Windows XP natively on their Apple machines. It is for the first time that Apple has publicly opened its arms to Microsoft's operating system, and I've never been as sure of a prediction as I am of this: Macs will one day ship with Windows. I'm not saying that they would say goodbye to OSX. They may, or they may not. But what I am sure of is that Apple would one day give their users the option of buying a mac running Windows out of the box.

And that is absolutely cool. I recently bought a laptop; and out of pure office work necessity, I had to buy a PC Notebook, even when I had my eyes set on a Powerbook for a long, long while. OSX rocks, but Windows rules the corporate desk; and in going for an open software platform, Apple is doing itself no harm. There are so many people like me, all around the world, who would want this to happen. Sure, the exclusivity of the Mac gets a blow, but this isn't exactly the time and generation for software exclusivity.

On another note, this is the last 'exclusive' Technology post that I'm posting on this blog. I've setup another 'exclusively geek' blog for all my technology rants and musings; you can visit it here. This blog, it's for prose, it's for movie reviews, it's for posts on music, those boring ultra-detailed posts on what goes on around me, and a Tech post here and there.