As the Apple Turns: Scene 550: Too Goofy To Ignore (3/19/98)

Too Goofy To Ignore (3/19/98)

Wacky rumor of the day: O'Grady's PowerPage says that a source close to Microsoft claims that soon you'll be able to buy Windows 98 for your G3-based Powermac. Native. Not some emulation package like VirtualPC or SoftWindows, but Windows 98 ported to the Mac hardware platform itself, making what we would assume to be standard Mac Toolbox calls to run the Windows operating system.

The mind reels. We honestly don't know what to make of this possibility. Microsoft would have to spend a considerable chunk of development time (okay, sure, they can afford it) to bring a native version of the Windows OS to Mac users. Seems like a strange amount of effort to expend just to capture a portion of the 4% of the computer-using world who uses Macs. Plus, it's not like a native Mac version of Windows 98 would be able to run standard Windows applications; developers would have to recompile their products for the G3 architecture. Without access to all of the existing software, where's the incentive for Mac users to switch to Windows 98? The excellent user interface? Puh-lease.

Basically, it's a rumor so completely unbelievable, we're unable to dismiss it. We're fascinated by the unfathomable reasons anyone would have to develop such a thing-- and we can't help but wonder who the intended audience would be. Still, a little confusion every once in a while's a good thing, hmmm?

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The above scene was taken from the 3/19/98 episode:

March 19, 1998: An ex-cast member with a grudge readies his new tell-all memoir. Meanwhile, Microsoft may be cooking up a Mac-native version of Windows 98, and the truth behind the Columbus project is revealed in the dreams of a psychic viewer...

Other scenes from that episode:

549: Sour Grapes (Er, Apples) (3/19/98) Here's a puzzler for you: What do you do if you're the CEO of a financially-troubled multibillion-dollar computer company who hired you to turn them around, but then you get booted out for not turning things around fast enough?...
551: Stranger Than Fiction (3/19/98) And speaking of confusion, nothing in the Mac world's kicked up more dust than the mysterious Columbus project, which Apple reportedly confirms to be real, though they won't say anything at all about what it actually is. The only info anyone's heard officially from Apple came from Steve Jobs, who claimed that Columbus is "anti-gravity technology." Sure, you scoff now, but you haven't yet heard the story of longtime faithful viewer Michael Williams,...

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