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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. Virtualbox by martalli · · Score: 1, Troll

    Who cares about dual booting when you can run win 7 in virtualbox?

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  2. jesus christ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jesus Christ, people. It's only the first! Give them a few days before you start your cries of "But they said the end of the year!!!" Or would you like to be the employee stuck working through New Year's Eve and New Year's day to get the update out to a bunch of people who likely won't care if it's a few days late?

  3. Why not just call it... by KillShill · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hypocrite Camp and be done with it?

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  4. OSX runs windows, Pystar runs OSX. by tevita · · Score: 0, Troll

    How does Apple do this, then leap all over Pystar? Am I missing some hypocritical anomaly?

  5. Re:A want is not a need, and slow is not "not nice by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well that's good to know. Did you get a lot of wedgies at high school?

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  6. Re:A want is not a need, and slow is not "not nice by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Well that's good to know. Did you get a lot of wedgies at high school?"

    You're alone there, I'm afraid.

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