Microsoft Mac Support

Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to probably repartition and reinstall or use MacDrive. The problem is that only Microsoft operating systems can write to NTFS. Other operating systems can only read to it because Microsoft has a tight grip on the specifics of NTFS. ...

bat for Linux partitions. I have installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my iMac G5 and when I have it booted to Mac OS X, it doesn't see the partitions at all from the Ubuntu side. ...

I forgot all about Wine. I've never used it myself. Is its compatibility good enough? And has anyone tried the OS X version, Darwine, on an Intel Mac? If Apple could manage something like Wine (maybe even based on Wine) that really worked well, that would be awesome. There'd be no need to buy and install Windows at all, so it would actually be a big step above Classic....

image anyway. Putting Windows on the same partition as OS X would not only be difficult, but also dangerous. I don't want Windows viruses hosing my Mac data! ...

available to both the Mac and Windows computers, it's best to format it FAT32 and not NTFS. That way both platforms can write to the drive. ...

to support MS Word .doc format and RTF format I would like them to indeed support them either way. ...

Word 2003 XML functionality is not supported by microsoft on the Mac, but is provided by OpenOffice. TextEdit can open any Word document I have throuwn at it, even when encoded in Word 2003 XML, except for footnotes. ...

I too recently installed XP Pro on a Mac Mini using Bootcamp and the driver disk that is mentioned. I too am having problems with the ethernet card. It works for awhile and then it stops working. ...

If this were the case for Windows being more popular, then Linux would have overtaken the market at this point and honestly it's nowhere near that level. Besides, the discs that come with a Windows restoration disc cannot be used on other machines, so you're basically tied to what's shipped with that PC unless you purchase the retail version, be it upgrade or full, and both...

Sure, Bootcamp is the best way to go on an Intel Mac 'cause you get the best of both worlds................. ...