# Dear Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU)... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-macintosh-business-unit-macbu/204327 "2003-09-28T17:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-macintosh-business-unit-macbu/204327/1 "2003-09-28T17:51:05Z")
Congratulations on your acquisition of a phenomenally impressive piece of engineering, the Virtual PC product developed by Connectix from whom you bought it a few months back. Folks, it has come to my attention that the existing code will not run on the new G5 processors. If Connectix still had the product, I would shrug and say “No biggie. They’ll have a new version that will, even if they have to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, available by January because they are Connectix.” (If some of their engineers came over to work for MacBU tell them I said so) So, MacBU, consider yourselves watched. You’ve got a tough act to follow and a contingent of worried Mac-VPC users waiting to see how you do with it. Must be a funny situation for y’all: you’re the one major division at Microsoft that has not had to deal with Windows. Not had to code the OS. Not had to code Office applications to run under it. You get to work on Macs and develop Microsoft apps for the MacOS. Now suddenly you’ve got Mac users turning to you and depending on you and saying “Give us Windows!” (And yeah, it’s a funny situation for us too, come to think of it. After all these years of Mac users saying that Microsoft wants to force us to use Windows and now we’re worried about how quickly you’ll make it possible for us to do exactly that!) We don’t want to be full-time Windows users and we don’t want to spend much of our time in Windows (or other PC operating systems for that matter) but because the PC platform is the _de facto_ standard we need the versatility of being able to speak it as a second language. So, like I said, congratulations. (Now get back to work and quit goofing off reading the board. January’s coming. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-macintosh-business-unit-macbu/204327/2 "2004-01-06T21:34:46Z")
Announcement from MacWorld: > [@](#): > > Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) announced today it will release Virtual PC 7.0 in the first half of 2004. Version 7.0 will offer performance improvements, user interface enhancements and compatibility with the Power Mac G5. OK, I’m ready to buy a dual-G5 PowerBook as soon as they come out 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-macintosh-business-unit-macbu/204327/3 "2004-01-06T23:26:58Z")
You’ll love it. 😉