Apple has long said it will do nothing to keep people from running XP on their machines, but this is sheer cynicism. It knows it can’t be done, and just grin and feed the rumour mill when you ask about it, or at least when people they deign worthy to talk to ask. Either way, while nothing is impossible, the level of surgery required to make it happen, if it is indeed possible, will never be something that a corporation will undertake.