The Mac likes Vista (the opposite is true, too)

Running Windows on a Mac was a fantasy that's existed since the PowerPCs arrived. Apple, listening to their users' needs, always supported the attempts in that direction by creating machines in which a 486 would coexiste with a 6040 or a PowerPC 601 around 1995. Software designers also understood it and created useful emulators like Softwindows or Virtual PC, and this kind of products always sold very well.
Today is in some way a great leap in the past as Apple, first for reasons that had nothing to do with the mere fact of running Windows, decided to make their hardware compatible again, or at least not to prevent the installation of Microsoft's OS. So now the whole Apple line-up consists in excellent PCs, even well-placed so far as tariffs are concerned as compared to their competitors, though those are so many more.
With the release of Boot Camp, Apple went as far as possible and freed the user of any obstacles preventing him from running Windows XP, that now may run as naturally as Mac OS X. Yet there's still a tweak, even if it's hidden, as it still still takes emulating a BIOS so that Windows XP may boot.
Then the question of supporting EFI in Windows Vista arose. For the moment, Microsoft's latest announcements talk of no native EFI support before Vista server version is released (in 2007), but at the same time they made available for download beta versionss of Vista supporting EFI.
To know more and make up our own mind, we thus downloaded (legally, as we're among the 100,000 subscribers) Vista latest version, called pre-RC1. This version is dangerously close to the future final version, as RC stands for "Release Candidate". And EFI is supported.
To make sure, we installed a second hard drive in a Mac Pro, formatted ot with 2 DOS partitions in GUID mode, and then booted on Vista installation DVD. The latter naturally forced us to convert the installation partition to NTFS, but caused no problem, and we didn't even have to run Boot Camp.
Even better, we didn't even need Apple's drivers for our Mac Pro hardware and its Geforce 7300 GT to be almost entirely supported. Last but not least, the slow HD syndrom under Windows XP that some other Mac Pro users reported (which implied creating a new installation CD for XP with Intel SATA and X5000 chipset drivers included) now belongs to the past.
With this solution, the Mac Intel becomes the first machine to work in a totally native way both under Mac OS and Windows, as naturally as possible. Under Windows, even the PC peripherals become fully compatible with this WinMac (from the mere USB device to the most modern graphic card). And running a few benchmarks proved our Mac Pro was simply one of the fastest PCs available for now.
One may still wonder if Microsoft and their driver conceivers will follow the material evolutions of the Mac, yet keeping no interest in such a nice platforme would be a crime.
After ten years of attempts that weren't necessarily successful, the dream of many users finally became true...