"More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today." My Take: Is this possible? We've been talking about virtualization on Leopard for a few days now, but did anyone see this coming? 
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Member since:2006-01-15
You can set Windows XP to be the default OS with a setting in Boot Camp.
Take a look at page 13 of the manual:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/pdf/Boot_Camp_Beta_Setup_Gu...
Member since:2005-07-02
I agree. As a Help Desk Tech, I just cringe to think of the costs of support for all those Intel Macs with hosed EFI due to failed XP install attempts. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's Call Centre tech's clamoured to have a dualboot solution that doesn't void the customer's warranty. Bootcamp, and the newest backward compatible EFI will bring Tech support costs down on these new Intel Macs (not counting "misroutes" ie: I realize you have installed Windows using our bootcamp software, but we don't support Windows, please contract Microsoft) ... although I suspect even those calls will be few because the sort of person who'll muck around with this stuff only contacts Tech Support for hardware failures
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2005-07-06
Maybe their motivation was to get control back on this before too many people install bootmanagers and loaders created by 3rd parties on the internet. This way they can still do things like botting into OS/X by default and only booting the alternative WinXP when the Alt key is pressed down. I think defaults are very important to "influence" the behaviour of your users (as you can see with all these spyware apps changing the startpage of your browser...)