Nope, as far as I know, the only versions of Windows that can be installed on a Mac are Windows XP and the upcoming Windows Vista.

im suuuure ive seen windows 2000 working on a macbook pro... and it wasnt the bere minimums of xp either...tho im only sayin tht cos of the "my computer" icon being the same one in 2000 and not the xp icon style...
besides. windows 2000 does bere SOME similarity to xp, so mabe it kinda makes sense :s
oh and by the way...
is there a way of recovering lost or deleted files on a mac... another question i have been asked, but this one i dont have an answer for...as yet... lol

As far as I know, it isn't possible. Older versions of Windows don't quite have the support needed to be able to boot from an EFI-based firmware, which is what exists in Intel-Macintosh hardware. You may have seen either a modded Windows XP, or seen it being emulated fullscreen in a virtual machine, such as Parallels.

Deleting a file on a hard drive by no means erases it; in most cases a charecter is placed in front of a sector to show that it can be used. I don't know of any utilities offhand that recover files, but there are some disk recovery programs such as Stellar Phoenix.

Well I have been using a PC since I started in computers. I stopped and used a mac mini while I was getting my Apple certifications. I guess it really depends on what you do the most. The mac was great for authoring dvd's and doing pictures and such. But I switched back to a pc with WinXP Pro because I play alot of games. Of course, now that the intel macs can run Windows as well, this is all becoming moot point.

I use OS and and 98 - XP ... I have Macs and PC's in the arsenal. I exclusively use the mac on the creative and education side ... but alot of the government/corporate custom or contract software is written for windows only ... so even at home I still have a windwos machine KVM'd with my odl mac mini. I use GIS applications at work and they just don't wirte software for OS X ...they have tried tried with route 66 and TOPO but there is just a few GIS Packages out there .. an none of them fit contract spec. I really like the mac .. but I'm realistic some vendors will not write two versions of software.

yeah its a pain as i want to switch 100% either to linux/mac but need to be able to sync my pda and use vb6, microsostf acess and my colleges custom VPN software.

I've used Windows as an OS for years now ever since it came out. Windows has always had a nice look and feel for me. I'm a major gamer so having windows is a big advantage for me. I can see why more and more people are switching to linux/mac though. One of the advantages Windows will never achieve is the fact of how linux and maybe mac not sure, are un affected by most viruses. My brother who's in the same boat as me being on the comp since DOS, recently went full ubuntu. Whenever he does wanna game he uses sedega or something simmiler. But like I said, i havent seen a program that can fully emulate the Window's PC gaming potentials. I'm mostly likely wrong but from what ive seen, PC/Windows just makes hte better gaming machine. Now gaming isnt everything. Ive seen a ton of machines running either mac/linux used strictly for coding/bussiness that work great, if not better than PC/Windows. Like i said earlier, I don't see myself switching anytime soon to a max/linux system when im perfectly happy with xp.

-Kaleb

The worst part about using mac is that one has to get a seperate machine. I would use XP/ubuntu, install all the patches and an anti virus, rather than spending 3 times that amount on an Apple machine.

As discussed in this post already you dont acctually have to buy a seperate machine to install windows now with the intel based macs using either parallels or boot camp.

Linux has been able to run on Macs for years (it can pretty well run on the very first Macs that came out), so I think he meant the other way around: running OS X on a regular PC, which currently cannot be done legally. This method is very similar to the way Apple restricts content purchased from the iTunes store to its iPod. Interestingly enough, iPods can also run Linux.