Friday, March 10, 2006
No Windows Vista on Intel Macs for Now
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"Microsoft confirmed reports that at least the initial Intel Macs from Apple would not support Windows Vista, telling BetaNews Friday that its next generation operating system would not support the EFI boot process being used by the new systems. Apple decided to use Intel's new Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) over the older Basic Input Output System (BIOS). As previously reported by BetaNews, Windows XP cannot run on the Macs due to its lack of EFI support, however Windows Vista was expected to change that. While Vista would support EFI, Microsoft has only decided to do so for 64-bit CPUs. The Intel processors being used with the first-generation Intel Macs have all been 32-bit."
This shouldn't surprise anyone, but I know this was a topic of some buzz in our forums, so I thought I'd pass the news along.
This shouldn't surprise anyone, but I know this was a topic of some buzz in our forums, so I thought I'd pass the news along.
