Apple Macintosh, Meet Microsoft Windows

It was only a matter of time before Apple made peace with the most prevalent operating system on the market once it made the move to Intel chips.

And we definitely saw it coming.

Apple users have been held back so far by Microsoft on Windows support for its Mactels - so named because they run on x86 microprocessors rather than that of Power PC technology. But even as the Vole cut support for EFI (the BIOS successor used by Mactels), hackers took the opportunity to successfully trick Windows XP into behaving on x86-based Macintosh computers.

Yes, we all saw that this is exactly what happened when those crackballs "0wn3d" several Windows XP installation discs to get them to install on Apple's Mactels Now, thankfully, you don't have to go so trigger-happy to dual-boot OSX and WinXP - you can let OSX do it for you natively (and legally). And the OSX technology that will enable this new form of Windows-Macintosh interoperability is quite accurately dubbed "Apple Boot Camp" - and it provides Mactels with a EFI/BIOS translator for Windows users that, according to reports, gets the job done efficiently. Plus it also includes Windows-specific drivers for Apple hardware that hackers have so far been near-incapable of providing for themselves.