Now you can have your cake--and eat it too

Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux community, longtime adversaries offering largely incompatible computing platforms, are putting aside some differences for the sake of computer users. In April of this year, Apple announced the free download of Boot Camp software to let Windows XP run on Intel-based Macs. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced in April that it would begin providing technical support to some users of Linux. Apple has tried in the past to become more of a standard, briefly allowing other companies to make Mac clones. This latest gambit appears to be an acknowledgment that, for better or worse, Windows is the standard, so why not let Mac users have their cake and eat it too.