{"id":204,"date":"2006-04-14T13:52:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/04\/14\/new-software-bridges-gap-between-windows-mac\/"},"modified":"2006-04-14T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T08:22:19","slug":"new-software-bridges-gap-between-windows-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/04\/14\/new-software-bridges-gap-between-windows-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"New software bridges gap between Windows, Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; For years, my desk has been cluttered by two computers &#8212; one Macintosh and one PC. It&#8217;s been an arrangement of necessity, as I prefer the Mac but sometimes need a Windows machine for work.<\/p>\n<p>So it was with great interest that I read about Apple Computer Inc.&#8217;s launch last week of a program allowing newer Intel-based Macs to boot Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s Windows operating system. A day later, another company unveiled software that runs Windows in Mac OS X at nearly full speed.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, software emulation isn&#8217;t required because the new Macs share the same hardware brains as Windows PCs. Unlike Microsoft&#8217;s Virtual PC program that lets some Windows programs run on my old PowerPC-based Mac, there&#8217;s no significant performance hit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/technology\/personal_technology\/14335903.htm\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; For years, my desk has been cluttered by two computers &#8212; one Macintosh and one PC. It&#8217;s been an arrangement of necessity, as I prefer the Mac but sometimes need a Windows machine for work. So it was with great interest that I read about Apple Computer Inc.&#8217;s launch last week of a program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}