Anyone else looking at the lay of the land in computing would have rationally decided to not get into the proverbial pissing march with the skunk that trying to compete with the microsoft skunk is and will continue to be. Jobs is just nutty enough to want revenge for the various hurts of the past. He has maneuvered himself into a position that due to the visisitudes and exponential polemics available in capitalist America where he could do the undoable.....take back the computer leadership and be the engine that leads the industry and leads the market too.Look at his set-up. he has the Apple stores to ply his product. He has the ipod to lure the innocent to his wares. Now we see the specter of a product that could run windows as well as mac os! side by side to compare! We all know that Microsoft could conceivably buy Apple out of existance. It is a masterful stalk that Jobs has accomplished. His gambit is magnificent! the mac wielding 'ol perfessor