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Boot Camp Beta Expiring

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Apparently Boot Camp v1.2 and below expired last night, and Apple have issued a statement today reminding everyone that v1.4 will expire at the end of October. Looks like Leopard is a certainty before the end of the month then. Can you imagine the howls from some quarters if there's no Leopard to be had by that date? :p
 
Looks good for the end of the month then, yeah.

Gonna really have to push it through the RC and GM stages if what I've read about the status is to be believed.
 
What do you mean by expired? Does that mean it won't be available any more or that it just doesn't work any more after that date?
 
TBi said:
What do you mean by expired? Does that mean it won't be available any more or that it just doesn't work any more after that date?
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It will stop working. Anyone wanting to boot into Windows will have to buy Leopard.
 
dynamicv said:
It will stop working. Anyone wanting to boot into Windows will have to buy Leopard.
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Hmmm... i seriously doubt they can stop me booting to windows. The drivers will work regardless. There might be a few issues with the Apple applications though but these will be hacked quickly.

I think i'll go set my clock a month or two into the future and see what happens.

I found this

[url=http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/11/boot.camp.beta.to.expire/]Mac News Network[/url] said:
Apple has also reassured Boot Camp users who have set up Windows partitions that their files will not instantly disappear should they choose not to purchase the final version, but admitted that support will be limited for those users who continue to use the beta.

"The Windows installation on a user's Mac will continue to work after the Boot Camp license expires," said Lynn Fox, a spokeswoman for Apple. Fox warned that the Boot Camp Assistant software -- which is designed to help set up and manage Windows partitions -- will no longer work when the test period expires. Fox also noted that Apple will no longer provide driver updates to beta users following the expiration.
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So basically you just set your computers date back a few months, run the boot camp partitioner and install as usual. I thought they were going to make it hard!
 
JohnNotBeatle said:
Expire, as cease functioning, or as in licensed use? I'm thinking of those that use BC and have no intention of upgrading to Leopard. Somehow, methinks the latter, but given recent events, fear the former.
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Why fear?

It was a public beta, everyone knew it was a temporary arrangement until Leopard was released.
 
bartelby said:
Why fear?

It was a public beta, everyone knew it was a temporary arrangement until Leopard was released.
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Yes but they can't stop your version of windows from working. All they can do is stop you from installing it again.

Anyway hackers will easily make every other version of bootcamp work on your mac. Bootcamp has always just been a set of drivers and a GUI for a built in command line program.
 
TBi said:
Yes but they can't stop your version of windows from working. All they can do is stop you from installing it again.
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No, but they can stop Bootcamp working, unless it's the Leopard version
 
bartelby said:
No, but they can stop Bootcamp working, unless it's the Leopard version
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And hackers will hack it.

Then again bootcamp on the Mac is just a GUI for a command line utility. It can't be that hard to write a little interface yourself for it. Techy people can just use the command line themselves.

All the drivers can be installed by themselves in windows so that isn't a problem either, except maybe for specific ones like the volume control but it won't be hard to hack a new date into them.
 
dynamicv said:
Apparently Boot Camp v1.2 and below expired last night, and Apple have issued a statement today reminding everyone that v1.4 will expire at the end of October.
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Can't find this statement anywhere, can someone post a link please??

TIA
 
nigrunze said:
I don't know where dynamicv found out about that but Apple's terms and conditions page now says December 31, 2007 or the next Mac OS X release, whichever occurs first.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/terms.html
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The original link was here, but they've removed the date info from the v1.3 and v1.4 expiry and changed it to "when Leopard is available to the public".

Sadly that page isn't Google cached :(

EDIT : MacWorld UK quotes the exact text I saw earlier here
 
Thanks Guys!
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