As Apple sales for portable iOS devices are far greater than OSX devices expect OSX to adapt itself closer to iOS functionality. I've supported systems from Apple back when Ben was still Obi Wan and the past 3 generations of OS's are clearly headed in the iOS intergration direction.

If your going over to Mac on the one hand you can run windows but depending on when you got your Mac and what OS X your running it's going to affect what version of Windows you actually can install. You can NOT downgrade macs without hacking them and voiding your warranty. So if you buy a Mac today with OS 10.8.2 you can't down it to 10.8.1 or ANYTHING lower and your options for windows running native are Windows 7 or Windows 8. That functionality is grandfathered however, if you had a system running 10.6 and installed XP and you install 10.7 you can keep your XP and run it native. You can run older verisons of windows throught virtulization which is going to be slower and by using 3rd party software but macs out of the box running windows, there a catch.

 

and you guys thought MS was big brother?