Ed Bott's Media Central

PC World’s Harry McCracken has some questions about Apple’s new Boot Camp software, which lets Intel-based Macs run Windows XP. Like: “Does Boot Camp let you run Windows Media Center?”

Microsoft’s Sean Alexander has some answers:

MCE (and an unreleased player) are running like champs.  I’m hearing reports of Vista running as well.  Battery life still stinks compared to my sony but hey, this is a desktop replacement riight?

Windows Vista running on Apple hardware? The mind boggles:

Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor… real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together… mass hysteria!

PC World also has more details on the new $50 virtualization software from Parallels, which claims to allow Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP, several flavors of Linux, and even OS/2 Warp in a virtual machine without dual-booting.