April 5, 2006
Apple releases Windows boot utility; ski conditions in Hell “favorable”
Posted Apr. 5, ’06, 8:07 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » News
Well I’ll be a Capuchin’s mother’s brother. Figuratively, of course. It was just last month that the Mac hack community was striving to get Windows XP to boot on new Intel Macs, with the eventual triumph of narf and blanka (not to mention the $14,000 of prize money). Now I’m starting to think it was all some sort of Lost-type mind game enacted by Apple.
This morning Apple released a software utility called Boot Camp that greatly simplifies the process of installing Windows XP on Intel Macs. Boot Camp walks you through partitioning your drive and even burns a CD of drivers for you, ironically making installing XP on a Mac easier than installing it on a PC (which I happened to do just this past weekend). Our criminal partners at Macworld have the full details on the new technology, which is in Public Beta form, but is described as being “in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard.” Rumors of some sort of virtualization system in Leopard had been flying recently though Boot Camp is the first solid indication that they’re anything more than bunkum.
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Thats a step into uncharted terretories for Apple. Although I personally support Apple and all theyr doings a 100% this worries me a bit. Will software developers stop supporting Mac OS X and just tell consumers to install Windows on theyr Macs if they want to use theyr products?
Mac developers know that Mac users are Mac users because they want to use the Mac OS. I doubt there are many developers still in the Mac market who don't understand that fact.