[Ti] [OT] Micro$oft acquires Virtual PC

[Warwick Teale]

Rob, your have "hit the nail on the head". Yes is this IS the case for 
me. I need MS OUTLOOK EXCHANGE for work corporate EMAIL access THROUGH 
a VPN router with a WINDOWS BLACKICE firewall.... so no can do this 
with OSX - because NO BLACKICE.exe for OSx  ... so it's either VPC ora 
REAL IBM thinkpad with IWN2K - necessity for sure

w

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

>> Um, John - why would M$ want to do away with something that enables 
>> them
>> to sell yet MORE Window$ OSes??
>
> I'm not John but my belief is that Mac users who buy VPC buy it 
> because they have to use a PC product. If VPC wasn't around, they'd 
> still have to buy something to run their PC application. That would be 
> a PC running Windows. Thus, no lost sale. And in fact, that purchase 
> of a PC might actually make that one more user who switches and just 
> gives up the Mac.
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