10 years ago Michael Dell said Apple should close shop

[DonnyEMU]

If Apple were to release OSX for PC, do you think they would be elevated to MSoft status?

That's a good question, would OS X run and run well on every hardware configuration that Windows and Windows Vista does? Could it support all of the chipsets and oddball hardware that Microsoft has to support? Would it support all of the vintage and out of date hardware? That's the real question because OSX right now only has to support a few limited configurations of hardware..

I'd even suggest after reading this below, that a lot of Mac people still depend on Windows...

Where Windows runs into problems (and specific implementations of Unix-like OSes) is support for chipsets and drivers for hardware that has to be invented and supported. Apple supporting "everything" would have a more difficult time than it does now..

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsofts_big_mac_sales.html

[DonnyEMU]

Keep in mind I own several machines including Amigas, Windows machines, and some intel macs and power pc macs..  

Apple gets away with not having the issues that Microsoft does by limiting their configurations and things that they support. Plus they handle 3rd party driver development quite differently.

Personally I feel if Microsoft only had a family of one type of Motherboard, the hardware/software would do just as well with it..