The prize has been won: www.winxponmac.com.
For the other discussion, I think Apple feels not yet strong enough to enter the Microsoft market with OS X for "normal" PCs. Microsoft could squeeze them like bugs. Maybe in a few years from now when Apple holds a bigger market share they will do it. Or when Steve Jobs no longer is the CEO and somebody else with a different attitude takes over. But maybe none of this will ever happen.
My advice for the moment simply would be to simply buy an Intel Mac instead of a PC the next time you want to get a new machine... :-)
For the other discussion, I think Apple feels not yet strong enough to enter the Microsoft market with OS X for "normal" PCs. Microsoft could squeeze them like bugs. Maybe in a few years from now when Apple holds a bigger market share they will do it. Or when Steve Jobs no longer is the CEO and somebody else with a different attitude takes over. But maybe none of this will ever happen.
My advice for the moment simply would be to simply buy an Intel Mac instead of a PC the next time you want to get a new machine... :-)