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11/28/2007, 8:55pm, EST
Wednesday, November 28th
Apple to end 'Boot Camp' for Tiger users
Although Boot Camp is a feature of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple has been offering a beta trial of the service for 10.4 Tiger for almost two years, and announced today that it will be discontinuing support for Tiger Boot Camp users. Originally introduced in April 2006, the Boot Camp beta allows Tiger users to install Windows on their Intel-based Macs, making it easier for Windows users to switch to a Mac, while offering Mac users a wider variety of software and games. Existing Boot Camp beta participants will still be entitled to keep their Windows partitions, but the software that manages installations will be deactivated, and Apple will no longer provide updates, requiring users to upgrade to Leopard if they wish to add to or modify the Boot Camp partition.
Apple has let users know about the expiration through the email address they provided when downloading the trial. “With the introduction of Leopard, the Boot Camp Beta program has ended. The Boot Camp Beta software will expire on December 31, and Apple won’t offer further updates of Boot Camp Beta for Mac OS X Tiger,” Apple says in the email. ""We hope you've enjoyed the opportunity to preview an exciting new feature of Mac OS X Leopard."
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Other story tags: Leopard, Windows, beta, Tiger, Boot Camp
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Users that have there drives partitioned will STILL be able to boot into both Mac OS X and Windows as they always have been able to - the only thing they wont be able to do is START UP THE BOPOTCAMP ASSISTANT to alter or restore there partitions.
Why arent the media reporting this - because Bagging Apple is the flavour of the month as usual. Please report the full story if you must report something that is so out of date and meaningless.
The piece does say that it won't stop you from using BC, only that the assistant won't run or be supported.
For once, macnn have actually reported something accurately and without tabloid sensationalism.
And seeing as Boot Camp is free with Leopard lots of people (like me) will be using it.