Last week, Ars Technica posted “evidence that Mac OS X could run Windows apps soon”:
Leopard apparently contains an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, a type of file used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. More poking around revealed that Leopard’s own loader tries to find Windows DLL files when attempting to load a Windows binary.
That’s nowhere near being able to “run Windows apps soon” by any conventional understanding of “soon”, but it’s interesting. Why spend…