Windows Vista Proves It’s Not Advanced Enough for Intel Macs

No Windows for you! That’s what the Vista Nazi will be saying to all you iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini users with those Intel chips in them. Yes, it seems that the development manager at Microsoft, Andrew Ritz, spit the bad news out at the Intel Developer Forum this week at Moscone Center in San Fransisco. To further the blow, Ritz said Microsoft operating systems will never support EFI booting on systems with 32-bit processors. This completely removes any hope for dual-booting OSx86 machines at this point.

What SvenOnTech finds interesting is the lack of true innovation from Microsoft. We’ve been critical here with the Redmond-based company not because we hate it, but because it keeps making false statements. Windows Vista is suppose to be this amazing jump in the Windows family but our view of it at CES was nothing short of ripping off the Aqua interface from OS X and just being a dot upgrade from XP. A command prompt in XP shows one that the OS is 5.1 while Windows2000 is 5.0. Why do we feel like Vista will show 5.2?

With Vista ditching such great advancements as a new file system, dumping support for EFI is just one more step in making this operating system just another marketing challenge for Microsoft more then a leap forward for Windows users. Once again, users will be forced to use the 20-year-old BIOS to boot their systems instead of the next generation channel of communication between the operating system and hardware. While Apple users get to enjoy their drivers living in EFI flash memory, Vista users will continue to have hardware and software issues like crashes that have so plagued Windows for over a decade.

So again, Apple will have the truly advanced operating system and once again, Apple and Microsoft can’t play together on the school playground. Surprise, surprise.

[tags]windows,vista,osx86,no efi support,no dual-boot[/tags]