[Sigia-l] Just b/c I love a good Mac/Win flame war ... ; ) ... seriously though

[Listera]

Fred Beecher:

> Demand for our services will continue to grow...

Perhaps for reasons that may not be apparent from this introductory salvo.

Dual booting is a XUX non-starter. It's for desperate people. Desperate
enough to break their workflow with a sledgehammer, shut down, re-boot, shut
down and rinse&repeat. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, but in
*this* state Boot Camp is of minor significance for actual usage, perception
being another matter entirely.

What's imminently interesting is virtualization, in various disguises. Mac
folk are used to it from past PPC/Classic migration experiences. Now there's
dedicated hardware support from Intel:

<http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/>

On various upcoming multi-core Intel chips this will be deliciously
interesting, for Apple and others.

So Apple's goal would be to "eliminate" Windows as an OS (so to speak) and,
yet, appropriate its applications, since you'd be able to simply run them
like any other native OS X app simultaneously, in side-by-side windows.

It's at that point that designers would be looking at a robust set of visual
design and interaction problems *between* various different OSes, on the
same screen, at the same hierarchical plane, intermingled, multitasking: UI
wars. Schweeet. :-)

----
Ziya

"If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, the size of the team is too
large."