Windows is a legacy OS. We don't have legacy support. Said Apple Engineer at IDF

Giving the last talk on the last day of the Intel Developer Forum being held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple Senior Software Architect Cameron Esfahani told a packed session that Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system may not boot on a Mac. He said he thought only the 64-bit version of Vista would boot off EFI rather than BIOS. The Intel version of Mac OS X boots off EFI but so far all MacIntels are 32-bit computers. Esfahani's statement is the same as that made previously by Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President for Worldwide Product Marketing, i.e. Apple will not support Windows Vista on MacIntels. More... [Dana Baggett]



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