Hello,
Apple has released another beta of Boot Camp, which now sits at
version 1.2-beta.
Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes:
• Support for Windows Vista (32-bit)
• Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime
(synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
• Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
• A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information
and actions
• Improved keyboard support for Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Danish,
Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, and French Canadian
• Improved Windows driver installation experience
• Updated documentation and Boot Camp on-line help in Windows
• Apple Software Update (for Windows XP and Vista)
**NOTE:
1.) To install Vista you will need to have the single DVD media and
not the multi-disk CD media distribution.
2.) It is highly recommended that you have 2GB of RAM to run Vista.
3.) Under Microsofts current EULA, you must have Vista Business or
higher in the product line to be used with a virtual environment
(e.g. Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMWare Fusion). However, Boot Camp
is NOT a virtual environment.
4.) As a beta there is absolutely no support from Apple Inc. At this
time, we have no guidance from Apple if this support situation will
change with the final release of Boot Camp.
For those who don't already know, Boot Camp is basically an
installation assistant and a collection of MS-Windows drivers to
enable Windows XP and Vista (32-bit) to boot on Apple computer
hardware as the primary operating system without removing the Mac OS
X installation. Specifically, MS-Windows has direct access to the
hardware in the computer will no emulation or virtualization. It also
modifies the boot manager to show MS-Window installations on local
hard drives (reboot your Mac and immediately hold down the "Alt /
Option" key).
For more information see http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
Regards,
Doug
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Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP
Senior Computer Consultant
Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba
204-474-6196 (Ph.)
204-474-7556 (Fax)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rob Klassen <rklassen(a)apple.com>
Date: March 28, 2007 5:01:34 PM CDT (CA)
To: Robert Klassen <rklassen(a)apple.com>
Subject: New Version of Boot Camp - 1.2 Beta
****Please do not forward this email, this information is for you
only****
Hi Everyone, if he have not seen this, Apple will be released Boot
Camp 1.2 beta today with Windows Vista support.
This version contains fixes for a variety of issues found in 1.1.2,
updated drivers, and support for Windows Vista Home Basic, Home
Premium, Business, and Ultimate.
**Note that on a Mac Pro, you must have at least 2GB RAM installed if
you want to run Vista or Vista will complain about needing additional
resources.
To get started, you still need a full copy of of XP or Vista (single
disc). Vista Starter and Enterprise editions may work, but because
they've not been tested, they are not recommended.
Similarly, Apple only supports 32-bit versions of XP and Vista. No 64-
bit. For 64-bit apps, use Mac OS X ;-)
Note added support for the Apple Remote (try it. It's very cool) and
made the system tray item in Windows about Boot Camp, not just the
keyboard support.
Apple Software Update for Windows is also being installed on XP and
Vista so we can try updating some things automatically in the future
(if necessary).
Also they fixed a bug that sometimes caused the mouse cursor to
stall, jitter, or shake when using a trackpad.
Changes in Boot Camp 1.2 beta
• Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime
(synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
• Fixes for Windows Vista (32-bit only)
• Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
• A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information
and actions
• Improved keyboard support for Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Danish,
Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, French Canadian
• Fixes for the Boot Camp Assistant
• Improved Windows driver installation experience
• Updated documentation and Boot Camp on-line help in Windows
• Apple Software Update (for Windows XP and Vista)
Updating to Boot Camp 1.2 beta
If you previously installed Boot Camp beta, you can easily update to
Boot Camp 1.2 beta. You don't need to partition your hard drive again
(unless you want to change its size) or reinstall your Macintosh and
Windows software or documents, but it's very important to update the
Boot Camp Assistant software, create a new Mac Drivers CD and install
the updated software it contains onto Windows. Complete instructions
are provided in the Installation and Setup Guide included with the
Boot Camp 1.2 beta software.
If you happen to upgrade from XP to Vista on a Boot Camp partition,
you'll need to re-run the BC 1.2 Mac Drivers disc to replace the Mac
XP drivers with the Vista drivers. Otherwise, your Vista install
will act weird running on the Mac.
If you have Windows installed on a FAT32 partition, you will need to
reformat it to NTFS to install Vista (use the Vista installer) and
may need to increase its size as Vista requires more space.
Boot Camp Beta Expiration
The Boot Camp beta program began April 2006 and will end upon the
release of Boot Camp in Mac OS X Leopard (expected Spring 2007) and
no later September 30, 2007, whichever occurs first. Upon the
termination of the program, customers should cease using and destroy
all copies, full or partial, of the the Boot Camp beta software and
Windows drivers included with Boot Camp beta. Hard drive partitions
created using Boot Camp Assistant, containing Microsoft Windows and
Windows software applications are not affected by the expiration of
the Boot Camp beta, only the Boot Camp Assistant. Please encourage
customers that want to continue using Boot Camp after the expiration
of Boot Camp beta to prepare by making arrangements to purchase or
upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard.
...from:
http://www.oto-online.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=284&Itemid=1
Blu-ray and HD DVD - different positions in US and Europe
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Blu-ray Disc movie sales in the US are outpacing those of HD DVD
titles by a factor of 2 to 1, according to figures from market
researcher Nielsen VideoScan. At the MEDIA-TECH Showcase and
Conference in Barcelona last week, Blu-ray Disc Association
spokesperson Frank Simonis presented figures from 20th Century Fox
predicting that the ratio would rise to 3.5 to 1 by the end of this
month.
Blu-ray title sales began to accelerate about two weeks after the
release of the Blu-ray-equipped Sony PlayStation 3 on November 17
last year.
Meanwhile, in Europe, HD DVD has the lion's share of the third-
generation equipment market - for the time being at least. Figures
from GfK Marketing Services show that, during January, mainly due to
Toshiba's entry-level HD-E1 player, HD DVD had an 85% share of the
market for blue-laser players, recorders and drives; the remaining
15% was split between Blu-ray equipment from Samsung and Sony. Prior
to the launch of the HD-E1, Toshiba had only a 58% share; however,
with the PS3 due to launch in Europe at the end of next week, these
figures are widely expected to swing back in Blu-ray's favour.
Here is a good article on making sure your Mac has adjusted to the
new start date for Daylights Saving Time ... which started yesterday
those of you who hadn't noticed. ;)
http://www.macworld.com/2007/03/secrets/dstfix/index.php
Regards,
Doug
...from:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129592/article.html
Microsoft Considered Dumping Mac Office to Hurt Apple
Jonny Evans, Monday, March 05, 2007 07:00 PM PST
Documents in the recent Iowa antitrust trial reveal more of
Microsoft's business practices.
Yet more criticism of Microsoft's business practices has emerged in
the wake of the recent Iowa anti-trust trial.
Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for
Mac in order to cause "a great deal of harm" to Apple has emerged.
An emailed memo from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates to then Mac
Business Unit chief Ben Waldman dated June 1997 talks about morale in
the Mac Office development camp.
At that time Microsoft's senior management were considering dumping
Mac support.
The email complains at poor sales of Office, which it attributes to a
lack of focus on making such sales among reps at that time.
It describes dumping development of the product as: "The strongest
bargaining point we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to
Apple immediately."
The document also confirms that Microsoft at the time saw Office for
the Mac as a chance to test new features in the product before they
appeared in Windows, "because it is so much less critical to our
business than Windows."
=============================
...from:
http://www.designnews.com/blog/380000238.html
Friday, March 2, 2007
Apple Wins Patent for Technology in Zune
Mar 2 2007 4:37PM
The US Patent office yesterday granted Apple Computer a patent for a
process called double back injection molding used to make electronic
housings. The process allows the distinctive glowing border effect in
Microsoft's Zune player [which began shipping November, 2006]. The
process allows creation of two different color effects as well as
improved structural characteristics of the border wall. it avoids
expensive and complicated action in tools. Apple uses double shot
injection molding for both iPods and iMac desktop computers, which
have a clear shell over a black or white layer. “The two shot
injection process allows for a thinner walled enclosure that uses
less materials and allows for added structural features that would
not be possible using traditional molding techniques,” according to
the patent summary [filed on August 16, 2005]. It was not clear, but
seemed apparent, that Microsoft may have to pay a licensing fee to
continue use of the process. One blogger [http://www.zuney.net/zune-
news/736-good-bad-news.html] stated, without documentation, that
Apple was stealing Microsoft’s idea.
[Patent item at:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-
bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20070048470.PGNR.&OS=DN/
20070048470RS=DN/20070048470]
================================
Apple on Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Office:
- "Hi. I'm a Mac" Guy: "PC, you are a wizard with numbers and
you dress like a gentleman."
Microsoft on Apple and Steve Jobs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
16934083/site/newsweek/
- Bill Gates: "...if you're really cool, that means you get to
be a lying person whenever you feel like it?"
and
- Bill Gates: "If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented
the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If
you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad
to educate you feature by feature what the truth is."
Microsoft on Microsoft: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/22/
HNmicrosoftappletie_1.html
- Jim Allchin (head of the Microsoft division in charge of
Windows and Vista development chief): "I have to tell you my
experience with our software and [the Zune] is really terrible," he
wrote in e-mail. "I expect you already knew this but I had not
personally experienced it. Now I spent last night really playing with
it. My goodness it is terrible. What I don't understand is that I was
told that the new Creative Labs device would be comparable to Apple.
That is so not the case.....I think I should talk with Jobs. Right
now, I think I should open up a dialogue for support of the iPod.
Unless something changes, the iPod will drive people away from WMP
[Windows Media Player]," he said in a Nov. 13, 2003 internal e-mail
that was marked 'highly confidential' and carried the subject line
"sucking on media players."
- also Jim Allchin: http://www.computerworld.com/action/
article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005873
""In my view, [Microsoft has] lost our way.I think our teams lost
sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full
scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how
important current applications are, and really understanding what the
most important problems our customers face are. I see lots of random
features and some great vision, but that does not translate into
great products."
[.............to be fair, it should be noted that Mr. Allchin has
since elaborated on these comments by explaining that he was just
trying to rally the troops to do a better job and that his comments
were not intended to be taken literally. ]
...from:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/12/apple-microsoft-mac-tech-
cz_dl_1212mac.html
"On Monday night, after reporters began making inquiries about the e-
mail, Allchin published an item on a Microsoft blog in which he
claimed the e-mail statement was being taken out of context. He said
that he'd made the comment about buying a Mac "for effect," that the
e-mail was nearly 3 years old and that he was trying to shake things
up at Microsoft."
......from:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/
allchins_buy_a_mac_email_exposed.html
- the entire email message Mr. Allchin , who is co-president of
Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division, sent to Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer on January 7, 2004:
"This is a rant. I'm sorry.
"I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our
customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost
our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what
resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what
performance means, how important current applications are, and really
understanding what the most important problems are customers face
are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that
doesn't translate into great products.
"I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft. If you
run the equivalent of VPC [Virtual PC] on a Mac you get access to
basically all Windows application software (although not the
hardware). Apple did not lose their way. You must watch this new
video below. I know this doesn't show anything for businesses, but my
point is about the philosophy that Apple uses. They think scenario.
They think simple. They think fast. I know there is nothing hugely
deep in this.
"http: //www.apple.com/ilife/video/ilifeO432C.html [Note: Link is now
dead]
"I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do
what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage
system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this
problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we
need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to
heart. Jim"
