Brian Croll

Brian Croll
boot camp option
If you want to go back to one partition for the Mac, you just rerun Boot Camp and that comes up as an option we make it very simple.
along asking boot creating customer decided help macs possible released requests run windows
After we released the Intel-based Macs we had a lot of customer requests asking if it's possible to run Windows on those machines. We decided we would help it along by creating Boot Camp.
ahead business grow linux opportunity product sees type user wants
Dell sees that as an opportunity to grow their business. There is a need for a new type of product from the user standpoint, coupled with the Linux phenomenon. Dell sees that and wants to get ahead of that.
ability barriers found group interested keeping large leaving mac move number people quite run second sold windows worried
We found there are quite a large number of people who were sold on the Mac and wanted to move over, but they had one or two applications that were keeping them from making the move. The second group was interested in the Mac but worried if they made the move over, (they) would be leaving something behind. The ability to run Windows would take those barriers down.