Microsoft has ceased development of Virtual PC for Mac, which lets you run a Windows virtual computer on a Mac computer, even using an Apple running with a Power PC chip.
Microsoft has ceased development of Virtual PC for Mac, which lets you run a Windows virtual computer on a Mac computer, even using an Apple running with a Power PC chip. This means there will not be a Virtual PC ‘Universal’ application that will run on the older Power PC chips and the newer Intel processors. If you have an Intel based Apple you have the choice of using ‘Boot Camp’ to switch between Mac OS X and Windows.
Virtual PC has the virtue of letting you switch and copy between and a Mac program and a Windows program running at the same time. You can run Office for Windows in the Virtual PC window while using normal Apple programs at the same time. Some people run Outlook in a Virtual PC box because it’s often more compatible and less troublesome than the Office for Mac program, Entourage.
Boot Camp is available from the Apple website and is really a dual boot utility. It is still in beta so you should read the documentation carefully. Apple makes a point of saying they don’t sell Windows nor support Boot Camp.
Other options for running Windows on an Intel powered Mac are Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMware say they are releasing a Mac based product later in the year. All those options only apply to the newer Intel based Mac’s, if you have a Power PC Mac then stick with Virtual PC.
