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Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise

Posted by Soulskill on from the see-you-next-year dept.

SkydiverFL writes "For those fans of Apple's Boot Camp package, it looks like you might be waiting on the next 'end of year' to use Windows 7 on your shiny silver boxes. Back in October of this year, Apple published a rather short, but affirmative promise stating quite simply that, 'Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp.' The support page has no updates regarding the new version. Maybe they're waiting for iSlate?"

6 of 279 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why bother? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then they should stop being smug and buy the real thing, which, apparently, they actually need.

  2. Re:Virtualbox by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Resizing partitions and booting multiple operating systems are not new concepts, only Apple users would think a Big Fucking Deal(tm).

    "Fuck Yeah! I'm running Windows on a Mac! That's what 'virtualization', is all about, baby!"

    -- poor, confused Mac fanboy

    Don't see any Linux vendors bragging about what a big extra "feature" GRUB is, and it does the same thing. Often more transparently.

  3. Re:Virtualbox by peragrin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    However windows users don't know what an MBR is or a bootloader.

    Linux guys are used to having to hack their way to a desktop windows users just what to get to the place with all those icon thingies.

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  4. Re:A want is not a need, and slow is not "not nice by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I already get that you don't understand the difference between a want and a need. You didn't need to reiterate your lack of understanding. Try to resist the urge to reply to me the next time you want to, OK. Now off you go ...

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    Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
  5. Re: There are still bugs .... by negRo_slim · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is exactly why retards, err I mean Mac Users shouldn't be mucking about with the disk management tools without properly backing up first.

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  6. RE: link to the drivers on TPB by vaporland · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    trojans, keyloggers and DNS cache poisoning included, no extra charge! now you'll really feel like you're running windows!

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