[Ti] [OT] Micro$oft acquires Virtual PC - the kiss of death ?

[T.L.Miller]

Thu, Feb 20, 2003 7:25 PM jwegriffin at mac.com John Griffin said:

>What do you think the chances are that they will keep Virtual PC going. On
>the one hand, it is a way of selling a few more (very few, admittedly)
>Windoz packages. On the other hand, it is a way of making switchers who are
>trying to do things both ways on one machine switch back - and those who are
>on the brink of switching to think again.

I'm sure those few extra copies of Windows that get sold w/ VPC don't
amount to a hill of beans to MS. However, if Apple gets too cocky, they
can always threaten to slow development of future releases or to cancel
VPC altogether.