{"id":85553,"date":"1999-12-31T00:52:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/run-windows-xp-on-a-mac-dead-easy\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:52:00","slug":"run-windows-xp-on-a-mac-dead-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/run-windows-xp-on-a-mac-dead-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Windows XP On A Mac Dead Easy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the web site Windows XP On A Mac a hacker has cracked the PC holy grail by getting Windows XP to run on an Intel powered Mac.<P>This is what they said:<\/P><P>Chalk up another first to the hacker universe. According to the &#8220;Windows XP on Mac&#8221; Web site, a hacker known only as &#8220;narf&#8221; has managed to load Windows XP on an unmodified Intel-based Apple Macintosh computer.&nbsp; It is a feat that Apple engineers, as recently as last Thursday, said was impossible. <\/P><P>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; said Cameron Esfahani, a senior software architect at Apple, in response to a question at the Intel Developer Forum about Intel Macs running Vista, Microsoft&#8217;s next major operating system. <\/P><P>Windows XP for Mac <\/P><P>The contest began online shortly after Apple released its new line of Macintosh computers that contain Intel chips. Contest organisers collected donations for the prize money, raising nearly $14,000 altogether. <\/P><P>Mac enthusiasts&#8217; blogs have been filled with posts debating the legitimacy of the video submitted by &#8220;narf&#8221; and another man. However, it was not until the solution was verified independently that &#8220;narf&#8221; was judged to be the winner. <\/P><P>The official announcement of the successful installation came at the end of last week when a message on the contest&#8217;s Web site read: &#8220;Contest has been won &#8212; updates to follow shortly.&#8221; <\/P><P>The video of the Windows XP Mac and the do-it-yourself software patches &#8212; which are available for download at the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.winxponmac.com\/\">www.WinXPonMac.com<\/A> Web site &#8212; are more than likely authentic, said Yankee Group analyst Nitin Gupta. <\/P><P>Vista for Mac? <\/P><P>With the &#8220;fairly complicated&#8221; installation instructions now available online, Gupta said, it is likely that Mac users who have been waiting anxiously for a Windows OS that is Mac compatible now will begin loading XP on their machines. <\/P><P>The installation process requires creating a Windows XP disc with a few extra files loaded on it. It also requires partitioning the Mac&#8217;s hard drive. Once the installation is finished, both Mac OS X and Windows XP reside on the Mac hardware. <\/P><P>&#8220;It was going to happen eventually,&#8221; Gupta said, &#8220;It just happened sooner rather than later.&#8221; <\/P><P>Gupta speculated that the successful installation of Windows on a Mac will put increased pressure on Microsoft to develop an OS for Mac hardware. <\/P><P>Creating a version of Windows for the Mac could be a win for Apple, he said, because many more people would be willing to give the Mac a chance if it could run their favorite Windows applications natively. <\/P><P>Increased pressure or no, said Gupta, Mac users probably will have to wait a long time before they see any software coming from the Redmond developer because a version of Windows for Macs would be an insignificant revenue stream for Microsoft. <BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the web site Windows XP On A Mac a hacker has cracked the PC holy grail by getting Windows XP to run on an Intel powered Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Run Windows XP On A Mac Dead Easy! 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