It is meant to be an idea factory.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively.

With some applications you notice the emulation more than others. The applications may not be as responsive when you first open them. For the person that bought the Intel-based Mac and is looking for that performance increase, the bigger bang will come from the native code.

It looks like Microsoft missed the major upgrade cycle from 2004 to early this year. Windows Vista would have been a much better story in 2005 than in 2006, or, realistically, 2007.

[The lesson both Microsoft and Linux supporters should take from the survey results?] Nobody buys an operating system, ... They buy applications. The operating system is there for the application.