This new consortium of software makers that make products to allow Windows apps (and Windows infrastructure) to work with Macs is but one example of a new consortium in recent weeks. (Microsoft, along with Cisco, IBM, Intel and Juniper also formed a new security consortium to fight multi-vendor zero day attacks.) Macs are coming back into the enterprise, mostly from high-level execs in love with their super slim MacPro laptops.

Doubtful that these five will have much of an effect on desktop choice of the enterprise, but it is interesting to see just how blurred the lines have become between operating systems and software apps.

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