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Apple Drops Windows 7 Support in Boot Camp

posted by juggs on Monday March 23 2015, @06:06PM   
from the maggot-in-the-apple dept.

cmn32480 writes:

From The Register:

Apple has dropped support for Windows 7 in Boot Camp. From the article:

The Cupertino fruit factory has decided to boot old versions of Windows out of the camp, quietly not-announcing that only Windows 8 and 10 will run on the latest flavours of the dual-boot "Boot Camp" utility that ships with this year's new Macs. The new policy means that the recently-announced MacBook Air and 13” MacBook Pro machines won't boot into Windows 7 or prior versions.

The change emerged to the world via this post on Apple's support site, dated March 10 but largely unnoticed.

The decision is an inconvenience for sysadmins whose enterprise environments demand older browsers and therefore older versions of Windows, but no disaster because there's still the option to use a desktop virtualisation environment like Parallels Desktop, Oracle's VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion.

• Re:Older browsers... still? Really? Re:Older browsers... still? Really? (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Monday March 23 2015, @06:38PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 23 2015, @06:38PM (#161619)

  Suuuure... Reality check: My multi-billion-dollar company just upgraded the Oracle system that had us stuck at IE 8 (internally only, at least). Last month.

  Apparently, it's easier to design 20/16nm chips than to upgrade a sales system. R&D is also a better place to invest an 8-figure sum.

  > Do your job and get your stuff to run on a modern OS.
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• Re:Older browsers... still? Really? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2015, @06:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2015, @06:40PM (#161621)

  Do you take dogecoin?

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