Boot Camp Flaw Leaves Some Users Fuming

Karl Cocknozzle writes "Some users who chose to install Apple's recent beta-offering of Boot Camp without basic precautions (like a full backup) have found themselves unable to boot their Macs to OS X. In a discussion thread on Apple's technical support Web site, more than a dozen users reported that Boot Camp successfully partitioned their hard drive and allowed them to install a working version of Windows, but then would no longer allow them to switch back. The download-agreement page for Boot Camp contains the explicit warning that Boot Camp is still 'Beta' software, and would not be supported if problems arose. On the whole, it sounds like the number of affected users is quite small, but may reflect a common lack of knowledge of what a 'beta' release really is: Not ready for prime-time."

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how could people not anticipate these sorts of things based on the long-established pattern of problems with being among the first adopters of a new hardware/software system?

You are a Windows user, right? User of such an "innovative" system must always be having problems. Users of other systems, which happen to provide real innovation, are used to better performance. I'll believe this is a real apple problem and not Astroturf when Apple admits it.