For Boot Camp Users, New Macs Require Windows 8 Or Newer

For anyone using Windows 7 by way of Apple's Boot Camp utility, beware: support for Windows via Boot Camp remains, but for the newest Apple laptops, it's only for Windows 8 for now. From Slashgear: This applies to the 2015 MacBook Air, and the 13-inch model of the 2015 MacBook Pro. Windows 8 will remain compatible, as will the forthcoming Windows 10. The 2013 Mac Pro also dropped Boot Camp support for Windows 7, while 2014 iMacs are still compatible, along with 2014 MacBook Airs and 2014 MacBook Pros. For those who still prefer to run Windows 7 on their Macs, there are other options. This change to Boot Camp will not affect using the Microsoft operating system through virtualization software, such as Parallels and VMware Fusion. Also at PC Mag.

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Running only Windows on a Mac

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always been curious if there is ever going to be a clean way of running straight windows on a macbook air (ideally Windows 10).

The air form factor is fantastic and really is actually cost competitive with what others put out when compared to quality (apple does have volume) despite all those who say you can get a macbook air equivalent PC for $300, I've never found one that works right.

For work reasons though I'm stuck with windows... so I'd love to skip the whole bootcamp thing entirely... but still need the drivers..

Re:enterprise use is still 7 and most drivers are

[jcr]

Back when Apple switched to x86, it only took a month or so before the people I know who had to go to meetings at Intel were telling me that they were seeing mostly MacBooks at the Intel campus.

-jcr