Jobs turns to the Dark Side

Like Luke, he was tempted, but he did in the end give in to his baser instincts. Steve Jobs has allowed Apple to release a way to boot Windows on an Intel Mac, called Boot Camp (to be a standard component of the next release, Leopard. Sigh.

What I hoped they'd do was write code to replace Windows system calls in OS X itself, so that you could run a Windows program natively under OS X. I suppose there were problems with that. But it would have been so cool to have some good piece of Windows software running as an OS X app, with all the benefits.

Also, what surprises me is that they haven't (yet) made it possible to run Windows in a memory partition separately from OS X, so you can hot swap between them. With a dual CPU, that could have been cool. We'll see what Apple come up with. Ever since they announced they'd been running an Intel program since the inception of OS X, I have suspected they had some things up their sleeves.