I have Windows 10 installed on a late 2009 Mac Pro. I also installed the last version of the Bootcamp support tools (5.1?) and everything works fine. It was an upgrade from Windows 8.1 under Bootcamp but I had to reinstall applications, etc.
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Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support
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I have Windows 10 installed on a late 2009 Mac Pro. I also installed the last version of the Bootcamp support tools (5.1?) and everything works fine. It was an upgrade from Windows 8.1 under Bootcamp but I had to reinstall applications, etc.
How you dowload the new bootcamp? i can't find them on AMD site. I find only for win 8.1.
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Grab an updated download of bootcamp (I grabbed a copy 2wks ago) and then go into the drivers folder in the bootcamp download and run the keyboard driver program and it will install update and it fixed my function key issues go away on my late 2009 13" MBP
Weird, I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro (unsupported) on Windows 10 using the previous version of BootCamp, and everything works flawlessly. All I did was install Windows 8.1, install BootCamp drivers, upgrade to Windows 10 using the Upgrade tool, then reinstalled the BootCamp drivers again, as some things weren't working.
My late 2009 13" MBP kept trying through windows update but failing so I gave up and downloaded the windows iso/installer tool and forced it myself.
I'd urge caution on such sentiments. This is crucial to Apple's marketing, and if I couldn't run windows, I probably wouldn't have a Mac. This harkens back to the 80s, where Apple users were cut off from the rest of the industry, and didn't end until the PPC era came to an end. While few use it, and I almost never use the Windows partition, it is a requirement for me to have assured compatibility between my stuff, work, and Microsoft Office (as bad as Office is). So, boot camp probably won't disappear any time soon.
And yet many do. Strangely, I've never met a Windows user who has expressed a desire or a need to install OSX on a Windows machine. Clearly you've never used Windows 10.
My guess is that Apple is devoting more resources to iOS and OS X than Boot Camp these days. The fact that you got it working on your older Mac suggests that there is a way to get working using a combination of Boot Camp 5 and Windows Update.
It's also possible Apple will expand this list over time. It usually took a lot longer than 2 weeks to get the Boot Camp drivers at all.
If it were simply "Apple being greedy" they'd have dropped El Capitan support for older Macs. Instead every Mac that runs Mavericks runs Yosemite and El Capitan.
Parallels 10 won't read a retina MacBook Boot Camp partition. They'll probably make users buy Parallels 11.
I've been running Windows 10 within a virtual machine within Parallels 10 just fine, but couldn't use the update app and instead had to download the ISO because Parallels incorrectly reports that its display driver is out of date.
I've a USB stick for Windows 10 supplied by Microsoft itself and it won't work in Bootcamp, which reports that it needs a 64-bit version of Windows 8. Is this an update for the OS X Boot Camp Assistant, or just a driver update package for Windows itself?
You severely underestimate just how many users DO use Boot Camp. Many, many people are only allowed to use Windows at their workplace or they may be told quite specifically that OS X is not allowed/compatible, therefore people need to use Boot Camp/VM's to get around this issue.
Other users choose to run Windows natively because they want to, and there's an awful lot of users like this!
Of course some systems not mentioned in the list can run Windows 10 without any problems but you'll be on your own and unspported by Apple. Use the latest versions of Boot Camp support and start from there.
Apple Camera, Various different trackpads, Power drivers, SSD controller, Thunderbolt. Some of the other stuff can be hunted down separately as you quite rightly mention, but even most of those are tested and signed by Apple for Windows not just grouped together with the exception of the graphics cards. Then its a case of building one easy to use package which deploys all these drivers correctly along with the software - its not a simple task and thus I don't blame them for not bothering to support 4 year old computers to be honest.
Err, what? You can already run Windows 10 as a VM. I'm doing it right now.
The older Boot Camp drivers worked just fine on the Windows 10 Preview until I installed a major update. The right click and click to tap survived that but the special function keys did not. I am sure that on a fresh install of RTM or just reinstalling even the old bootcamp drivers after that update it will be smooth sailing.
It is still very annoying how many controllers Apple shoves into their computers. Cirrus Logic Audio? I thought they were dead.
It is still very annoying how many controllers Apple shoves into their computers. Cirrus Logic Audio? I thought they were dead.
Same here... So u can either pay money to get a windows 10 home to use with Bootcamp, OR u can install windows 7 within a Virtual machine, download the ISO from Microsoft (for free) and upgrade and will have the same effect.
You don't have to completely up to date ... U only need SP1 for Windows /Vista.
I've done this from a complete install of Windows 7 SP1, without running Windows update, downloaded the ISO image from MS, and it upgraded fine.
Well, it does NOT on a Mid 2014 MacBook Pro -- the 8.1 drivers produce multiple blue screens per day. Will be interesting to see if the new drivers fix that.
Finally some updated drivers for the m295x, although my Mouse pointer has a habit of disappearing now :/
You don't have to understand why people want to do it.
And as for your comment re Win 10, I suggest you actually try it before you comment as you are very wrong. If you can't bring yourself to try it, then I suggest, with all due respect, you keep quiet on the subject.