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That was my impression too...
... when I was about to buy some Windows emulator for my new Mac and found out about this acquisition by Microsoft.

My objective was to run several applications I paid for in the past hundreds of dollars (video editing suite for example) on MacOSX and its hardware while leaving Microsoft domain at home completely.

I thought to wait for VPS 7.0 to see firewire support for emulation, but I felt that Microsoft wanted to eliminate from market kind of people I am. Well... they have never bothered to release Mac emulator for Windows to get some of Mac users aboard Windws flagship. They did not need to as they are dominant on the desktop market. However, at least they could realize that providing a good emulator for any other "minority" desktop system infuses Windows and Windows based products into other markets. That could be beneficial to them. The question is whether they see it beneficial enough.

By the way, Wine for Linux still limps badly. I seem to be able to run GUI of variety of Windows applications (if I tried to use some Windows OCX's and some special DLL's), but more complex functions (in particular hardware) still don't work. Perhaps the project is too ambitious... or perhaps platform emulation is better than API emulation.
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I Can See It Now ...  dr praetorius | 05/12/04
Except entire PC...  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
Didn't MS "buy out" Connectix...  MacCanuck | 05/13/04
Convicted Monopolist M$ bought it to kill it!  LinuxLover74 | 05/12/04
That was my impression too...  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
FYI: There are several 3rd party Mac emulators for Windows...  LinuxLover74 | 05/12/04
I doubt it  DarthRidiculous | 05/12/04
So do I  Fred Fredrickson | 05/12/04
It's OBVIOUS that you're a fake.  Linux_Developer | 05/12/04
And the sky is blue - have any other wisdom for us, genius? lol (nt)  LinuxLover74 | 05/13/04
The question of interface support  FirstNLastN | 05/12/04
Possibly silly question, but...  DpuTiger | 05/12/04
Furthermore  tic swayback | 05/12/04
No VPC7? No problem.  issthatso | 05/12/04
VPC vs. VNC?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/12/04
a little misleading info here  doh123 | 05/12/04
Yep  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/12/04
Sounds reasonable.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/12/04
Microsoft buys Virtual PC, delays next version - Who'd have thunk it?! (nt)  bgoss@... | 05/12/04
(NT) That means me installing BSD on my Apple will have to wait?  Spin_Masterz | 05/12/04
The G5 is the problem  Ken_z | 05/12/04
Those Mac users should switch to Windows...  Sniper_z | 05/13/04
Not that I give a damn, but ...  DeepFreeze3 | 05/13/04
Why switch to a dull product?  YuridaMan | 05/13/04

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