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No EFI Support for Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the apples-and-oranges dept.

DietFluffy writes "Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI."

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  1. Re:Wrath of the Windows Users! by donaldm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you buy a new Mac with a view to putting MS windows on it under a dual boot or run under virtualisation. Now I know we are all "Cough!!" Honest people and we would go out and buy a new sparkling MS Windows install CD, not to mention a copy of MS Office. So let me ask the question again why to you even want to put MS Windows (dual boot or even virtualisation) on a machine designed for a Mac?

    I know some people will say because of games, but if you have all these games you surely have a MS windows machine, again see above.

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