Let's be serious, who would have ever thought that in the recent IT history we will witness the development of a system able to run both Mac OS and Windows, without having to use a pesky emulator? The perspective which seems gloomy to some and hilarious to others has all the chances of becoming reality since Apple turned the weapons against IBM and allied with Intel.

The perspective of buying Mac systems with Windows preinstalled on them might seem like a bad joke, but once the Intel processors are integrated in Apple's systems, this idea looks rather feasible.

Steve Jobs confirmed yesterday that although the company doesn't plan to retail their Macs with Windows on them, there won't be any measures to prevent running Windows on the new systems. In this way, users will be able to run Windows compatible applications on their Mac OS.
For now, it's hard to imagine how such a dual operating system work, but if highly appreciated features from both systems will be implemented, once can only get a system with excellent compatibility, connectivity and customizing.

Still, I feel like someone is missing from this little OS reunion. Ah, yes, Linux which might lose some of its already slim market share. In this confrontation, with Microsoft being the favorite player, and Apple the main contestant to the title, it's obvious that Linux will be only an outsider.

If Macs are able to run Linux/Windows applications, Linux might face serious problems, the majority of users going for the most popular and easy to maintain operating system. Linux will have a difficult time to adapt, although even now there are versions of the open source system for Apple. Still, this is only a market segment, a small drop in the Linux ocean, and not a very successful one either if we consider all problems related to hardware compatibility.