Shame On Apple For Not Providing Windows 7 Drivers By Now

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While I actually like apple more than Paul does, I agree, apple is a hardware company and they should support have supported 7 from the gate, but i dont really care my hackintosh has all the drivers it needs

The guest account data deletion on Snow Leopard probably hit about 3 users. MS fan complains about Apple taking their time? Ever hear of Windows Mobile or Vista? Having said that Yes, I am actually looking forward to loading Windows 7 on 2 of our Macs. I have Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional here. I would like to see the Boot Camp update soon.

I see Paul's "Apple missed deadline calendar" is working fine. Way to stay on top of things, Thurrott. Of course, as "rswilli2" correctly points out, this is basically a non-issue. But now that you've pointed it out to them Paul, I'm sure they'll get right on it. What a fine public servant you are!

Paul is surprising pro apple a lot of the time. I know a few people that buy mac pro's just to run windows on, mainly for 3DS Max. So Paul may not be an apple fanboy, but he is a fan of apple.

So the predictions for the tablet are coming out and one users guess is that it will fit between the iTouch and the iMac...as a on the go replacement for those who don't want to carry a Macbook when they are on the go. They also predict: "The Tablet will do less than we expect but the things it does do, it will do insanely well. It will offer a fraction of the functionality of a MacBook — but that fraction will be way more fun. The same myopic feature-checklist-obsessed critics who dismissed the iPhone will focus on all that The Tablet doesn’t do and declare that this time, Apple really has [messed] up but good. " And I bet it will run Windows 7 if you want it to. I absolutely bet that the drivers are ready by then.

"Previously, Apple promised to provide Windows 7 drivers through its Boot Camp utility, which lets Mac OS X users dual boot between that OS and Windows, by the end of 2009. So they're late." Oh, yes, Apple is late with the driver updates to the SP3 edition of Vista, which was the watered-down, delayed, feature-dropped descendant of a thing once called Longhorn, which was late by 3, 4, 5 years? But Apple is late by a few months. Yah, that's really worth noting, and SO very different than the delay of most of a decade that it took Microsoft to go from XP to the next version of Windows. Even for you, Paul, this is lame. Rock-bottom lame. In any event, on the rare occasions that I run WIn7, it runs fine under VMWare, which is better than Boot Camp, anyway, because no reboot is required.

@chuckb84 So because of Windows Vista, no-one's able to criticise anyone on timing ever again? A few months is a long time to be waiting for drivers. (Let's not forget that it took Apple five years to produce System 7.6 and Mac OS 8...) Paul, for his part, has already expressed his opinion on the matter: "Let those words hang in your mind for a bit. Two and a half years later, Microsoft has yet to ship Windows Vista, and it won't actually ship this system in volume until 2007. Since the euphoria of PDC 2003, Microsoft's handling of Windows Vista has been abysmal. Promises have been made and forgotten, again and again. Features have come and gone. Heck, the entire project was literally restarted from scratch after it became obvious that the initial code base was a teetering, technological house of cards. Windows Vista, in other words, has been an utter disaster. And it's not even out yet."