This new consortium of software makers that make products to allow Windows apps (and Windows infrastructure) to work with Macs is but one example of a new consortium in recent weeks. (Microsoft, along with Cisco, IBM, Intel and Juniper also formed a new security consortium to fight multi-vendor zero day attacks.) Macs are coming back into the enterprise, mostly from high-level execs in love with their super slim MacPro laptops.
Doubtful that these five will have much of an effect on desktop choice of the enterprise, but it is interesting to see just how blurred the lines have become between operating systems and software apps.
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Mac in Windows Enterprise
How about an article that addresses the cost of the Windows license and the need for additional third party products like ADmit-Mac to make Macs really work with Active Directory?
What Alliance?
This is really a major event in the world of OS's. Five companies that no one has ever heard of are forming an alliance.
Watch out PC-based corporate users. We are all going to be out looking for jobs while our old jobs will be filled by really cool hip casual dudes like the one on the PC-MAC commercials.
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