Star Apple Updates Boot Camp
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Aug 2006 15:45 UTC, submitted by rm6990
Mac OS X Apple released version 1.1 beta of its Boot Camp software that allows Apple users to run MacOS X side by side with Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac. The 202 MB download adds support for newly released Intel-Macs, simplified partitioning, the ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk, support for the Isight camera and built-in microphones, as well as improved Apple keyboard support. Apple says that users should create a new Macintosh Drivers for Windows CD and install the updated software it contains on Windows XP. According to Apple, this will not require the user having to reinstall Windows XP or Mac OS X. Elsewhere, Apple is preparing for the new Xserver cluster node.
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RE[2]: much energy
by D3M0N on Thu 17th Aug 2006 17:54 UTC in reply to "RE: much energy"
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2005-07-09

But will they add Windows as a BTO option? I doubt it. It would jeopardize OS X IMO.

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RE[3]: much energy
by Mellin on Thu 17th Aug 2006 19:06 in reply to "RE[2]: much energy"
Mellin Member since:
2005-07-06

and i think microsoft would demand that windows has to be the default os

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RE[4]: much energy
by gdanko on Thu 17th Aug 2006 20:06 in reply to "RE[3]: much energy"
gdanko Member since:
2005-07-15

and i think microsoft would demand that windows has to be the default os

And there would be wizards all over the land.

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RE[4]: much energy
by rm6990 on Thu 17th Aug 2006 22:15 in reply to "RE[3]: much energy"
rm6990 Member since:
2005-07-04

AFAIK, Microsoft's license doesn't forbid customers from installing more than one OS and modifying the MBR to accomodate this, however, hardware manufacturers are forbidden from doing this. In-fact, a manufacturer can't even install a boot loader that has Windows as the default and Linux/BSD/whatever as the secondary option. The boot loader has to be the default Windows one, which can only boot Windows. This is why manufacturers had to ship a floppy disk so that both BeOS and Windows could boot on the same computer.

I somehow don't see Apple shipping Windows as an option on their computer if Microsoft enforced this licensing clause against Apple.

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