March 2007 - apple-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

New Version of Boot Camp - 1.2 Beta
by Doug Hamilton 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

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 ------------- 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.

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INTEREST: Blu-ray vs HD DVD sales
by billing 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

...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.

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Daylights Saving Time
by Doug Hamilton 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

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

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INTEREST: Mac users, Microsoft's "guinea pigs"; "Double shot" trouble
by billing 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

...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"

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