RealPC Discontinued at FWB
Recent management changes at FWB has led to a major evaluation of the status of development work including Realpc."Since taking over F.W.B. software on July 17th one of the first priorities was determining the status of all development work on going by FWB." explained Marko Kostyrko, FWB's new CEO.
He continued, "The previous management had made claims in press interviews and on the company website regarding the status and upcoming release of RealPC OSX claiming it was in late beta and about to be released. After more thorough investigation and interviews with the previous staff, we have found that the development had not formally been started, and it appears not a single line of code has been written. FWB has not to date even received the source code upon which any development would use as the foundation to build a new RealPC for OSX. I am sorry to have to admit that apparently the company has been a party to vaporware when it comes to the claims regarding RealPC."
In reviewing the status, it was determined that the development cost including licensing fees made the project unattractive. Therefore, the new management has determined that it is not in the best interests of FWB to go forward with the development of RealPC.
Honesty and openness with the user base is a cornerstone of the new management team. We are developing software to return FWB Software to its historic position as a leader in disk utility software.
Since Virtual PC does not work on the G5 CPU according to CNet, this leaves no Windows emulator for those using a Power Mac G5. While we have yet to hear about Blue label from Lismore Software, it's specs require a G3 or G4 so it may have the same problem as Virtual PC.
Microsoft has known about the G5 incompatibility issue with Virtual PC for months yet does not intend to address it until the next version of Virtual PC and that could be a year or so. Quite a difference between a company that doesn't need Virtual PC income and Connectix which did. This is exactly what we expected out of M$.
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