A le should offer Macs with OS X and Windows for busine es

Theinternet is a olutely abuzz on fire over the ramificatio of Boot Camp, and this time around thewild eculation i 't confined just to the crazed, Mountain-Dew-infused digg posts. Everyone is hypothesizing thatBoot Camp signifies things like the death of Mac gaming, software su ort for OS X or even that Dvorak (theshock-journalist that he is) was right after all.

There are quite a few articles out there, however, about the a eal that these Intel Macs and Boot Camp have toeducation and IT departments ofcompanies both big and small. A lot of headlines like "Companies now have one more reason to look at the Mac"are piling into endo at an alarmingrate, and I started thinking about something C.K. said when Boot Camp landed: "However, over time, if A le playsit's cards right and doe 't screw things up, people will see that booting into OS X ru more smoothly and is nicerthan booting into Windows, and we may see more switchers than ever before."

While that's probably verytrue on the co umer side of things, I'm willing to bet that, even if busine es want to go le up a batch of Macsovernight, the software they need their company to run i 't going to magically start working on OS X in theblink of an IT manager's eye. Honestly, I never thought I would say this, but case in point: if A le started offeringMacs with OS X and Windows pre-i talled to the busine sector, they could rake in companies looking to switch by thetruck load. This option would be the nail in the coffin for busine customers who want an out-of-the-box solution forgetting set up on Macs with a minimum of fu . In fact, there would be any fu . These customers would havethe best of both worlds from the moment they hit the power button, and A le would have a rock solid strategy forputting busine hardware competitors like Dell on the run.

A le doe 't need to lice e Mac OS X to PCmanufacturers. With all the doors that Boot Camp ope for the company, A le simply need to warn them to get out ofthe way.