A Deal With the Devil. (or Two Scorpions in a Bottle.)
Regarding Rhapsody for Windows/NT for PowerPC.
Not happening. (Unless ... see later ...)
Why because Jobs and Gates made a Faustian bargain not to incur on each other's turf. Gates didn't want anyone muscling onto his Wintel turf. MSFT's raison d'etre is its ability to leverage its OS monopoly.
No doubt he has communicated the idea to Mr. Jobs, that if your dinky little MacOS wanted the validation of a new MS Office, you'd better not even *think* (different or otherwise) about creating an Intel-based OS.
Similarly, Mr. Jobs said "Yessir, yesssir, three bags full" -- you want me to play ball and say nice things about Explorer, I can do that. Oh and fair's fair. You want me not to sniff your Pentium butt, then you've got to keep your NT stink out of our POwerPC Petunia patch.
The "unless" part comes in the form of DOJ. If MSFT thinks it's in their best interest to appease the DOJ, then they might even support a Mactel incursion by writing apps.
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>PS. Since this is purely speculation on my part, please keep this private so as to not stir up another wave of rumors. Thanks in advance for your thoughts on the subject.<
OK, I promise.
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