Windows XP booting on a MacTel?

OSX86project highlights a forum posting from a user who almost succeeded on booting Windows XP on a MacTel.

As a heads up I seem to have gotten to make the machine boot off the local Hard Drive finally (though I'm not exactly sure what I did as I was just fuddling at that time. I'll have to look in detail later) but it still reboots and at least in this config I lost the ability to use F8 on that partition too. On a side to that I also discovered that once the bootmanager is loaded it can read NTFS drives even if the EFI doesn't see it as I put vista back on an NTFS partition on the USB drive and it started loading. Also and this may be a bit more significant....I had installed XP on another partition on the drive and so it showed up on the bootloader. It started do...well..SOMETHING as I had hard drive activity when I selected the Legacy OS boot option. Problem is I couldn't see anything on the screen and the PC rebooted itself after which it told me it couldn't find NTLDR anymore.

Meanwhile, the irony is that it's currently easier to run Mac OS X on an Intel or even AMD based PC than running Windows on a Mac. We're not sure it's exactly how Apple wanted things to be.