MacNN reader Andrik Aschoff notes a ZDNet Germany article that details a Microsoft ad which shows Windows XP running on a desktop Power Macintosh system.
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That's what I was thinking. The proper term is stock art (or stock photo) though. I'd be raising h*** if it was a PowerMac G4 or something, but the ad company that put this thing together probably assumed it was a Wintel box.
You CAN run Windows XP on a Mac G4. I have RC-1 of Widows XP and have run it using VPC 4. It even runs on VPC for Mac OS X. But, it is dog slow.
This was on MacSlash earlier this week (or was it last week? Can't remember).
Although, unless I misread the article, it doesn't mention the fact that you _can_ actually run NT on a ppc computer (discontinued for several reasons, foremost of which is that no self-respecting mac person would ever run any version of windows on their computer full time - just for a few apps).
Yes, this was on MacSlash a few days ago. I posted a link to my own screenshot of the same image.
The last version of NT that ran on PPC was 4.0, SP2 (IIRC)
MS stopped supporting PPC and Alphas around the same time.
This pic was on The Register a few days ago. I started a thread in the Lounge about it.
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=27&t=004647
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Here's a rough translation of that ZDNet article. My German's a little fuzzy but it shouldn't be too far off...
Microsoft (German stock symbol) committed a genuine faux pas in the USA during their advertisement campaign for Windows XP. In an image demonstrating the use of Windows XP, the user eagerly gazes at the monitor of his Apple (stock symbol) PowerMac. It need not be explained that this is currently an absurdity. The embarrassment was discovered by the Austrian online magazine "The Standard".
Twenty years ago, the computer scene was dominated by the likes of Apple, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, Tandy and Xerox (stock symbol). Nevertheless, on August 12, 1981 in New York, IBM (stock symbol) presented the first PC with the name "IBM Personal Computer 5150". Later arose the "Windows" operating system. Out of those days arose the strong rivalry between systems from Apple and Microsoft. Apple continued to build Macintosh computers with the Mac OS operating system, while Microsoft penned the operating system for qualified PCs.
XP stands for "experience". The operating system is supposed to make the solid technical basis of Windows 2000 accessible to the average user, as well as bring together the previously incompatible Millenium Edition and Windows 2000 program versions. The ZDNet "Windows XP Resource Center" offers news, tests, screenshots and reader forums for the new OS.
as in bad?
I did not know that....
no... X as in OS X rip off, and P as in what most people will do to their new OS... Pee on it.
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just a clip art mistake
The photo in the MS web article, which allegedly shows a mac, is a clip art photo I've seen before. The identity of the mac is removed (the apple logo, etc) have been "beiged out" so that the tower represents a generic personal computer. Obviously it was a mac (maybe a 9500) originally. It's just a badblunder by the designers to use that particular clip art, because they were obviously unaware the beige box was originally a mac.
If you read German, you can read more about it (though they don't acknowledge it was clip art) here...
http://derstandard.at/?channel=WEBSTANDARD&url=http%3A//derstandard.at/standard.asp%3Fressort%3DXP