Hardware: What is a Mac with Windows other than an overpriced PC with fancy clear and white casing? One reader posed that very question in the comments section after MacWorld sparked speculation that someone would tweak Windows to run on Intel-based Macs. A number of users, in fact, have written in to say that the more promising option would be running Mac on industry-standard hardware, namely PCs from the likes of Dell or Hewlett-Packard. “I am personally much more interested in being able to run Mac OS X on my existing Intel hardware rather than running Windows on the Mac,” wrote another. A third comment: “I would like to second the OS X on existing Intel hardware proposal. I’m sure Apple isn’t interested in supporting device drivers for hardware they don’t get any benefit from, but they do have an Open Source kernel and there are lots of open source programmers who write device drivers and kernel modules for Linux for all kinds of hardware.” Find all the reader comments — and add your own — here at this link: https://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2006/01/will_windows_fi.html#commentsColumnists’ Corner: While neither Apple nor Microsoft joined the Windows on Mac discussion, Apple did make one thing abundantly clear at MacWorld, writes Ephraim Schwartz in Apple follows the money, “Apple is no longer pretending it is interested in becoming an enterprise player.” Best of the blogs: Ed Foster points out that if you’ve gone to the trouble to write a complaint letter and want to land it in the hands of a company CEO, there is one step that should not be overlooked. In Real World SOA, Dave Linthicum offers advice to those of you beginning to build an SOA: start with semantic mapping and ontologies. The news beat: Internet Explorer 7 will have a history flush feature when it becomes available. Google buys radio ad provider dMarc Broadcasting, with plans to integrate the acquired technology into its AdWords to create a new radio ad distribution channel. And three major U.S. broadband carriers claim they are leaning toward giving certain services a performance edge on their networks, but the notion may not fly for businesses or consumers. Technology Industry