Steve Jobs' keynote speech at Macworld 2006 had lots of surprises for the Mac faithful. It seems, though, that the speech had plenty for rest of the computing world too. Both Apple (in the form of Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing) and Microsoft (in the form of Scott Erickson, director of product management and marketing for Microsoft’s Mac business unit) have been quoted by MSNBC as accepting the possibility that the Microsoft Windows operating system will be running on the new Intel based Macintosh hardware.
Anyone who has hung around this story for a few years should have his/her head spinning at what happened this morning. Microsoft, Intel, Apple -- all nicy nice and cozy together. The one nice reminder of the old days was the new knife edged commercial Apple will be running to promote the new machines.
PC's -- "Dull little boxes, performing dull little tasks." Now that's the old Apple we used to know and love. Let's hope the Mac doesn't become just another of those dull little boxes.