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he public will be more likely than ever to look at other alternatives -- and hopefully a third party (perhaps w/ a linux or unix kernal?) will come out with a realistic alternative to Windows. If not, then Microsoft will gain complete control over the software industry, and they will choose another sector of the economy to start monopolizing
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Mac OS X is based on a UNIX kernal called Darwin. This kernal is open source so pro users can manipulate and make better programs with an open source system. There were rumors of Mac OS X on an Intel Chip (
http://www.osxonintel.com/ ), but Apple knows that there G4 chip is 50% faster than even a 1.8 ghz Pentium Processor (
http://www.apple.com/g4/myth/ )
Liniux I think had is bright staring moment, but will not propser because major applications will never allowed their code to be exposed for people to copy and manpulate. Plus the complicated GUI and dull interface.
Mac OS X is now trying to phase in right now. But the phasing in process will take about a year for application makers to re-write the code to take advantage of the new robust system. The same thing will happen to Windows XP. Software, especially games and older software, will have to be re-writen. Hardware may also be affected, especially if the hardware you have is no longer supported by their manufacture. Microsoft even said, that if you machine orginally came with Windows 98 or 95 don't expect it to run on Windows XP.
So, you will probably not see to many Windows XP machines until the later part of next year.