How? By writing their own version of Boot Camp to optimize the Windows 8 experience for the underlying hardware. If Microsoft is smart, they’ll make that easy. Later this year, when Microsoft gets around to releasing a beta of Windows 8, a lot of tech reviewers are going to want to try the new OS on Apple-branded hardware. For that, you can blame Apple’s Boot Camp software, which runs the machine’s disk subsystem in legacy IDE mode and installs a messy glop of generic drivers that leave much of the hardware’s performance untapped on Windows. The trouble is, they don’t run Windows 7 all that well. Intel-based Macs-and the new MacBook Air in particular-are built from the same parts that make up a standard Windows PC. Even in Redmond, I’m told, some senior Microsoft executives consider Macs the perfect hardware on which to run Windows.Īnd indeed, they’re right.
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