Amaya Toman In one of our articles from the Back to the Past series, we recalled this week how Apple introduced its utility called Boot Camp in early April 2006. This was a feature that allowed users to install and boot from a Microsoft Windows operating system in addition to Mac OS X / maOS.
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Apple first released a public beta version of its software called Boot Camp. At the time, it allowed Mac owners with Intel processors to install and run the MS Windows XP operating system on their computers. The official version of the Boot Camp utility then became part of the Mac OS X Leopard operating system, which the company presented at the then WWDC conference. While during the 1996s and XNUMXs, Microsoft and Apple could be characterized as rivals (despite the fact that Microsoft once helped Apple significantly in a crisis), later both companies realized that in many ways one could not do without the other cannot be avoided and that it will be much more beneficial to cooperate with each other for the sake of user satisfaction. In XNUMX, Steve Jobs himself confirmed this when he said in an interview with Fortune magazine: “The computer wars are over, done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”
At the beginning of the new millennium, Apple's management began to look more intensively at how it could expand the user base for its Macs. Boot Camp started to look like a great way to attract those who had been loyal to Windows PCs to the Mac. One of the things that made Boot Camp work on Macs was the presence of Intel processors that replaced the previous PowerPC processors. In this context, Steve Jobs said that Apple has no plans to start selling or directly supporting the Windows operating system, but he acknowledged that many users have expressed interest in the possibility of running Windows on a Mac. "We believe that Boot Camp will make Macs into computers that will appeal to users who are considering switching from Windows to Macs," stated
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Benjamin Levicek Boot Camp really simplified the installation and booting from Windows on Macs with Intel processors - it was a procedure that even novice or less experienced users could handle quite easily. In a simple and clear graphical interface, Boot Camp guided the user through the entire process of creating the appropriate partition on the Mac disk, burning a CD with all the necessary drivers, and finally also installing Windows on the Mac. Once installed, users could easily boot from both Windows and Mac OS X.
