Mac lovers don't need a reason to stand in line for Leopard. BUT Boot Camp might just be what it takes for Macs to get out of the art department and into the mainstream corporate world. Users of critical Windows machines -- who aren't ready for the desktop Linux until it grows up over the next couple of years -- need an alternative now. Macs with Leopard might just be it. The article says: Boot Camp lets users switch between Mac OS X and Windows. Even though Boot Camp isn’t exactly virtualization, wherein Windows would run as a guest operating system under Mac OS X, it lets users save open Mac applications and Windows and then boot from Windows. When users are finished with Windows they can boot back to Mac OS X and see the applications just as they were before booting into Windows.
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More MAC OS in Corporate America
I've seen an increase in the use of MACs in a corporate setting. Many out-of-the-box features have been very useful, especially for smaller firms. Larger enterprises adopting Linux continues to grow. The Boot Camp feature should present some interesting use cases for dual-OS scenarios.
Paul Lopez
Corporate use of Boot Camp seems unlikely to me
Once users have booted into the Windows they're familiar with, what incentive is there for them to stop everything and reboot into OS X? I've known users who complain about how long it takes their email's trash folder to empty - they would see booting and rebooting as a giant waste of time.
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