Apple Joins BAPCo 213
DigitalDame2 writes to tell us Gearlog is reporting that Apple has joined up with Windows benchmarking consortium BAPCo as a full blown member. From the article: "This is significant because it means that Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing, and it will influence industry-standard testing methodologies going forward, possibly including Mac OS X testing."
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Obvious (Score:5, Informative)
The single biggest incompatibility has been applications, and the single biggest reason has been the fundamentally different processor. With that out of the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is seriously considering helping Windows apps run on OS X. Then it would have the best of both worlds - Unix-like (Darwin) codebase and Windows app compatibility.
So the fact that "Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing" is hardly surprising.
Re:Apple/Microsoft (Score:2, Informative)
MS sold their shares quite a while ago, and at quite a nice profit too!
Re:Apple/Microsoft (Score:4, Informative)
MICROSOFT OWNS PART OF APPLE - On Aug. 6, 1997 Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple
Microsoft settled an antitrust lawsuit with Apple. Buying these shares was part of the agreement. They have long since sold them for a very good ROI (although not as good as if they still had them).
Microsoft continued support for MS Office on the mac was also part of settlement (although dropping it would have just started another successful anti-trust suit for Apple). That part of the settlement also expired, although MS has made a newer deal with Apple ensure they continue it for another four years.
As for the feature set of MS Office, releases are staggered so usually a few features are added to the mac version that don't make the Windows version (which typically is released a year earlier).
I'm sorry to burst your conspiracy theory bubble and all.