Boot Camp (software)
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Boot Camp 5.1.2 running on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Initial release | April 5, 2006 |
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6.1.0 / August 10, 2016
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| Type | Software assistant for dual booting |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the boot operating system.
Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the utility was first included with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since. Previous versions of Boot Camp supported Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Boot Camp 4.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard up to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7. However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion inversion 10.8.3, only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are officially supported.
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