Apple "Invents" The Boot Loader

I'm sure they know some folk need Windows.

Apple isn't that big in the PC market these days and not all that powerful. The power it exercises over the Mac user base is a lot worse than what's forced on PC users. If Apple had 90% of the market, it would be horrible. Depending on one company for both hardware and software to run on it? That's totalitarian. At least Apple is starting to shed that philosophy.

I'm sure there will be a hack out that will allow Halo 2 to run on Windows 2000 and XP. I don't however think it's cheating for the company to make Halo 2 only run on Vista. In the long run it will be a good idea.

This reminds me of a game on the Amiga that really got people to upgrade and we got better software because of it. It was Dungeon Master. When it came out, it was the first popular game to need 1MB of RAM on the Amiga. People were buying the 512KB upgrade for their Amigas. Third party hardware companies put out alternatives to the Commodor solution at half the price. In the end most people had upgraded computers and better software showed up.

John