Usually I give a cursory look over of articles that post reminiscent type stuff of past news as far as technology goes but one of the items re-listed in Steve Clayton’s post today reminded me of something I have been saying for a while now.

The original article Steve talks about is one from the Wired magazine titled 101 Ways to save Apple (man I remember those days of doom and gloom for the company) and it was point #34 in the article that I think would make Microsoft quake in their collective boots

34. Port the OS to the Intel platform, with its huge amount of investment in hardware, software, training and experience. Don’t ignore it; co-opt it. Operating systems are dependent on installed base; that is your biggest hurdle now. It is not the head-to-head, feature-set comparison between Windows and Mac OS.

Now before you start snickering too hard about that crazy ol’ coot at WinExtra just stop and think about it for a minute. Really … if you could have the Mac OS X operating system running on equipment you already instead of having to go out and buy all new and expensive hardware how many of you would try it.

Then take all the dissatisfied Microsoft users out there since the release of Vista - both consumers and companies. Wonder how many of them would switch to OS X? I know I’d be first in line to at least try it out because as much as I might want to the financial reality is that I can barely afford the Intel platform I am running let alone the cost of switching to OS X.

I realize that Apple has always been a hardware company with software as the necessary evil needed in order to sell that self same hardware. However since Apple’s move to the Intel processor on their hardware isn’t this whole Apple hardware becoming a moot point.

Come on Mr. Jobs .. please port OS X …..

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