A le to PC Manufacturers and Windows: It%26#039 on!

OMG I ca ot stop giggling with glee over Scott's Boot Camp post. A le has just throwndown a pretty major gauntlet to all the current PC manufacturers. I mean, now, thousands of cubicle workers around theglobe can say, "Yes, I can run Windows on my MacBook Pro. I won't be needing that Dell machine you ordered forme to run the one bit of proprietary Windows-based software that has shackled our company to an expe ive yware andvirus-riddled platform for far too long."

If it works nicely, that mea in the short term thatDell is in big trouble, as are all other PC manufacturers. It also mea that Windows may be making some more moneystarting out, as a decent number of A le users *may* go out and buy a copy to i tall on their Macs. However, overtime, if A le plays its cards right and doe 't screw things up, people will see that booting into OS X ru moresmoothly and is nicer than booting into Windows, and we may see more switchers than ever before.

Of course,the real key to this would be if A le would just go ahead and release a version of OS X for PCs. I think with BootCamp, A le just threw down the gauntlet and within a year, they'll take the fight to the desktop PC. I ca ot wait.