Windows on a Mac

Great! Now all us Mac users can be eaten up with spyware, worms, and virus activity, too!

EDITOR'S NOTE: There's really nothing to stop that from happening now... except market forces. The malware developers focus on Windows PCs because that's where 90% of their market/victims are. If Mac OS gains significant market share, you'll be swimming in the stuff too! You DO run a good anti-virus program on your Mac, right?

One of the reasons for Boot Camp I am sure is so that Windows users can buy a slinky Mac and try the OSX experience with a safety net. New Mac owners get OSX and multimedia consumer apps iLife included as a bundle, and after using that integrated suite, for most people there would never be a need to access Windows-only multimedia apps. Using them is like falling off a log.

Windows users will probably think OS X is less snappy than XP, which is true, for one app at a time, but Macs are amazing for workaholics and a big plus that most Windows users will not realise till they use OS X is that you can run your multimedia software, render video, or burn a CD while surfing the net, writing a letter, and have 20 apps open and ready to run at the click of an icon - with no slow down or hanging, until your RAM is consumed, on a basic machine.

The security side of things for OS X is not a Windows disaster in waiting either. It is a UNIX operating system that has been running security obsessed corporate software for 20 years, designed to cope from day one for multi users and internet use and abuse. Out the box OSX will not allow a rogue program to run unless the admin says go. Obviously Windows can be locked down successfully, if you know how, but as always with security, users are the weakest link, downloading and installing unknown software will break any security systems, butthe saving grace as ever with OSX over XP is that an average user doesnt need to be a systems admin to lock down OSX or get the most out of the Operating System.

As a former Windows user I make no apologies for really appreciating the liberating and calming effect of using OS X and will now prepare my flame proof suit.

I think this great to allow the user to have more options. I am curious on how Windows will perform under boot camp? Maybe it will be advantages to let you readers know the performance gain/loss running Windows XP on a Mac.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Windows isn't running "under" Boot Camp. Boot Camp is just a way of adding a partition to your Mac's hard drive. Once you install Windows in that partition, it's running native on the Intel hardware, just like it would on any other machine. There should be no noticeable performance difference.

Dear Bob ,
My Notebook is MacBook Pro 15" with Mac OS X 10.6 installed
But actually I don't like to deal with Mac OS coz it's some hard and definitely prefer Windows Microsoft coz of it's ease
I knew that the Boot Camp Assistant Application helps me for that purpose but ,
it's just could make one partition for windows and no capability for partitioning and dividing either :-

1. before installing windows or after
2. inside Mac OS or inside Windows OS

coz if I did any of 1 or 2 , window couldn't work anymore
Actually what I want you to help me in is to :
make 1 partition for Mac OS and 3 partitions for Windows OS
I don't know how to do that
Please help me
Thanks ,

Is there any update to this that would allow one to run Win7 on a Mac? And what do you think of Office written to run natively on a Mac? How does it compare to Office 2010? I would love to go back to Mac, but I would find it hard to leave behind the (Windows) Outlook functionality after so many years of dependence on it.

Thanks.

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