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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2004Jim: many thanks for the response...and I understand ......
what you "trying" to say. However, having a G5 for over a year BEFORE we get an operating version of VPC is ridiculous. It's NOT like Microsoft was caught unaware that Apple was releasing the G5.... Not that I would have delayed my upgrading to the G5, but this just stinks. I see NO connection to MS Office so I don't understand why that's even being brought up. Bottom line, there are a BUNCH of us out here that were relying upon an operating version of VPC, were running fine when Connectix had the product, then MS get's it...we're in the dark and all the sudden, the product won't run on the latest Apple boxes. I guess Apple just snuck the G5 into the market without letting anybody know.... sheeze. I was unhappy that it was "projected before the end of 2003"... I worked around the projected "summer release". Now I'm furious that it's "by the end of 2004". Give me a break!! If you're disagreeing that it'll be out late 2004...say that. All WE have to go by is rumors. You can't say the same thing would not have happenend with Connectix and the G5. Since the VPC team that is at MS is nearly identical to the one at Connectix I think the timeline results would be similar. Although, MS has much bigger budget for dev. Things like this happen in the software world, especially when completely new cpu architecture is released. Apple is partially to blame as well, they were the ones that removed the CPU architecture that previous versions of VPC need to run. >what you "trying" to say. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >If you're disagreeing that it'll be out late 2004...say that. All WE >have to go by is rumors. Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows Website: http://www.essjae.com Was it Apple? Or was it IBM? Apple used to use Motorola PPC's, then with the advent of the G5 they went to IBM. My understanding is that IBM's version of the PPC lacked the Big Endian to Little Endian Conversion Instruction. Not sure even Apple predicted or forsaw that! > You can't say the same thing would not have happenend with Connectix > and the G5. Since the VPC team that is at MS is nearly identical to [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows > Website: http://www.essjae.com Dunno. Little Endian support is listed as a feature of the G5 chip set on IBM's web site. The computers that Apple ships don't have little endian support. Who is to blame? Your guess is as good as mine. -Jim Quoting from "Gerry Simmons" <simmons@darykon.cet.com>, in article uHUOScrQEHA.2468@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl, on [DATE: > Was it Apple? Or was it IBM? Apple used to use Motorola PPC's, then > with the advent of the G5 they went to IBM. My understanding is that [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows >> Website: http://www.essjae.com  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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