Windows Live is just the first step. Microsoft is building out all of its existing products, cross-connecting different features around communications and social networking. |
With some applications you notice the emulation more than others. The applications may not be as responsive when you first open them. For the person that bought the Intel-based Mac and is looking for that performance increase, the bigger bang will come from the native code. |
You can play semantics and say that the operating system is shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC manufacturers don't have it to sell to them. This blow falls on the partners. |
You could look at it from the perspective that the responses mean there's a problem that needs to be addressed, or it could also be indicative of how much more interest there is in the use of the browser, ... No feedback and then problems occurring later on is a bad situation. The best situation is the release candidate goes out and people respond and say, 'Wait a minute! What about this? What about that? |
You have a number of scenarios that open up that didn't before for the enterprise. Imagine an outfit that's doing CAD [computer aided design] work. Most of the good CAD programs run in Windows. For a shop that might want to use Mac OS for many other things, the ability to boot into Windows could be very convenient. |