A Fortune magazine interview with Steve Jobs reveals some interesting details and possible revelations for Apple Computer. MacDailyNews has this information from the article which is subscription only at Fortune.
“Apple has cast a shadow over Microsoft too. Jobs likes to say that the upcoming Tiger version of OS X will have everything that Bill Gates and Microsoft are promising in Longhorn, the often delayed major upgrade of Windows, now due in mid-2006. ‘They copied the original Mac with Windows 95,’ Jobs gloats, ‘and now they’re going to be copying us again,'” Schlender reports. “Mac OS X is so solid that Apple is beginning to sell Macs into markets that never before would even consider them, like the military and university supercomputer centers. Most tantalizing of all is scuttlebutt that three of the biggest PC makers are wooing Jobs to let them license OS X and adapt it to computers built around standard Intel chips. Why? They want to offer customers, many of whom are sick of the security problems that go with Windows and tired of waiting for Longhorn, an alternative.”
There is so much more from this article, if you get a chance to read the full text of the interview you’ll see what we’re talking about.