No, the interface won't be preserved for most programs. Apple's menubar is separated from the program. Even if they achieve that, programs that have custom menubar will most likely crash. Having the menu inside the window might be a good compromise, but that's just not OSX-ish anymore

Its the same sort of thing for those applications that requires X11 too. Interface within the application wont be the same, but it does allow for access to some of the applications that's not OS X native.

This will be a good approach to take, but I remember reading somewhere that Apple had mentioned that such seamless virtualization will not be present in Leopard.

I am guessing that if they really found a way to parse the menu from the Windows app, they would still need to figure out how to hide the one that originally exist. So, I would say virtualization with some graphical tweaks to the current Parallels' Coherence feature would be most possible if such 'Top Secret' feature do exist in Leopard. There are rumors that Apple might buy Parallels because Apple has started to recommend people using Parallels instead of its own Boot Camp.

Also, someone inquired the Parallels guys when would directx acceleration be ready and the answer was 'next beta'.

Nice comic in NST today


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