Boot Camp betas head for Boot Hill

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by Stephen Withers

Tuesday, 02 October 2007

! The beta versions of Boot Camp - Apple's software for installing Windows on a Mac - are beginning to expire. Related stories MacBook touch - here's hoping it's not a pipe dream Google goes to 'Android Market' in App Store challenge Why iPhone 2.0.2 fixed problems for some users Microsoft IE8 Beta 2 released: the web browser for jerk-offs? Why Pod when you can Plum? Beta version 1.2 expired on September 30, while 1.3 and 1.4 last until the end of 2007 or the release of a commercial version. Boot Camp will be part of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which is due this month, so the latter is likely to be the operative clause. The good news is that an existing Windows installation will keep working happily. Although people talk loosely about using Boot Camp to dual-boot Mac OS X and Windows, the Boot Camp software is only used to take care of the partitioning, installing the operating system and preparing device drivers. So anyone that used Boot Camp beta 1.2 is still fine, as long as they don't need to go through the installation process again - the Boot Camp Assistant in version 1.2 no longer works. Given that more recent versions featured better device drivers and other improvements, there's no real reason to still be using 1.2. Some users that don't plan to rush to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 may want to see a commercial release of Boot Camp for 10.4 (or at least an extension of the beta period), but there's no sign at this stage that Apple will oblige. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Apple  Macintosh  Software  Stephen Withers  Windows  Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now

 

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