Re: Did Microsoft BUY Apple?? Virtual PC GAMES.
From: Steve Jain (essjae-No_at_Spam-hotmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:56:40 -0800
On 15 Feb 2005 02:42:00 -0800, "Stephen DeVore, Seattle, WA"
<fx@sadsongs.org> wrote:
>Microsoft has limited Virtual PC 7 to 16MB of Video RAM.
Increasing VMAM doesn't increase performance.
>
>Yes, previous versions had only 4MB, and 16MB is better.
>
>But by limiting Virtual PC 7 to 16MB of Video RAM, Microsoft has struck
>a huge blow, helping to limit the Macintosh in what games it can play!
Video RAM is irrevelant. The major issue is performance. VPC is
emulated as is all the hardware. You want an emulated nVidia 6800
Ultra with 256MB, sure, but you'll find it impossible for any personal
computer to emulate a graphics processor.
>
>Most of us know that some big games just are not on the Mac (yet). And
>Microsoft knows that some of the game developers just don't have the
>resources to develop for the Mac.
Yeah, so? That' why Connectix started developing VPC and Virtual
Server for Windows, do get new sales. The Mac market is very small
compared to the Windows market and when you've got the entire market
share year after year, your company stagnates, there is no growth, no
new revenue, etc.
>
>Yet GAMES are a MAJOR reason why some people BUY another computer!
And Xboxes and PS/2s.
>
>Has Microsoft helped to seal the Mac's fate -- and made more certain
>the continued dominance of Windows for years to come -- by buying out
>Virtual PC?
Whatever! This is such old news, Microsoft purchased Connectix
technology in August of 2004.
And guess what, Jobs was in on it all along, long before the sale was
finalized and there was even a hint of a rumor of it happening. Jobs
could have stopped it if he wanted. How do I know? I worked at
Connectix.
>
>Truly, in all the discussion about Microsoft being a MONOPOLY in the
>Personal Computer industry, HOW COULD THE FTC, ETC., HAVE OVERLOOKED
>THIS OBVIOUS BUYOUT of Virtual PC?? Amazing.
>
>And why didn't Apple buy it? Too tempting to look at the Windows code?
>(LOL.)
They didn't make any offers and/or didn't want it. Why? My opinion,
tt would undermine Jobs theories about the endless supply of software
available for the Mac...oh wait, not everything works, guess you do
need Windows.
There is no Windows code in VPC. VPC is an emulator of an x86 system.
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