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Do business Macs still need to run Windows?

ComputerWorld IT Management

In January 2006, Apple took an important step toward success in the business world — it began to transition the Mac onto Intel processors. Initially this capability came via Apple’s dual-boot system, called Boot Camp, followed by Parallels Desktop, software that ran Windows in a virtual environment.

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Do business Macs still need to run Windows?

Computerworld Vertical IT

In January 2006, Apple took an important step toward success in the business world — it began to transition the Mac onto Intel processors. Initially this capability came via Apple’s dual-boot system, called Boot Camp, followed by Parallels Desktop, software that ran Windows in a virtual environment.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union. OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

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Do business Macs still need to run Windows?

ComputerWorld IT Management

In January 2006, Apple took an important step toward success in the business world — it began to transition the Mac onto Intel processors. Initially this capability came via Apple’s dual-boot system, called Boot Camp, followed by Parallels Desktop, software that ran Windows in a virtual environment.

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Microsoft invests in startup Mistral AI, outlines broader AI principles

GeekWire

“We’re focused not just on proprietary software, not just on our partnership with OpenAI, as critical as it is, but with a wide number of companies,” said Brad Smith, the Microsoft president and vice chair, outlining the company’s AI access principles during a keynote address at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.

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Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful

The Verge

The original Rosetta was released in 2006 to facilitate Apple’s transition from PowerPC to Intel. The company shifted from PowerPC to Intel chips in 2006, but ditched support for the former in 2009; OS X Snow Leopard was Intel-only.). Apple claims improved performance over the original version of Rosetta from 2006.

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system.