After we kicked over the burning trash can about Leopard running Windows code natively, many spread the fire stating it was the end of OS X. Yesterday SvenOnTech played devils advocate and agreed that like OS/2, OS X was going to die. One of the examples was that no software maker would waste the resources for two different code sets when one would run on both.

One such developer, Adobe, was a prime example in many of your comments as well as our little post. But guess what? The man that heads Adobe himself has chimed in and says, ‘Nope, we’re sticking around on this Mac OS X stuff.’ Adobe’s CEO, Bruce Chizen, told ars straight up that it had no plans to rely on Boot Camp or virtualization. He told ars:

“For the majority of our products, writing directly to the Macintosh operating system is an advantage to the customers and you will see us continue to do so and not work through Boot Camp or the Windows emulator because we think that will not be good for the majority of our customers.”

Now do note the majority part. Yes, this means there could be some software that won’t see Universal binaries (Premiere?) but it sounds like favorites like Photoshop, Acrobat, and InDesign are safe and will find native OS X Universal binaries.

With this statement of commitment, it now adds more fuel to the fire of what will happen to OS X if Leopard does do Windows and OS X applications. If Adobe will still do native Mac code, won’t everyone else? Microsoft seems to even be still committed to Universal as some sources in the Mac Business Unit have said that there is a Universal Office underway. If Adobe and Microsoft go Universal, it’s safe to say that others will, too, and all these visions of OS/2 are just that: visions.

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