Delayed Leopard will put Boot Camp users at risk?

Yesterday, Apple announced a delay in the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard until October. Thus, before the release of Leopard, users still need to run Windows on Macs using the Boot Camp beta.



Under a licensing agreement with Apple, users of Intel Macs can use the beta version of Boot Camp until September 30, 2007, which is surely before the release of Leopard (of course, according to old plans). Here is an excerpt of the license agreement:

[This license] will end automatically without notice from Apple, by the time the next commercial version from Apple Software is released, or on September 30, 2007, even if it (the commercial version) was released earlier.

Earlier this week, Apple assured its users that after September 30, the Windows partition will not disappear, but the Boot Camp Assistant (the program that installs and manages Windows on Macs) will have to say goodbye.



Without Boot Camp Assistant, users will not be able to install Windows in two clicks, change the partition with it, or remove the OS from Microsoft from the system.



Leopard’s release date is very important for Boot Camp users, because Apple promised to integrate this bootloader into the new OS. Until Thursday, there was no problem, since everyone thought that Leopard would be on time, but now Mac OS X 10.5 is out and the Boot Camp license agreement does not match. Since last summer, it is rumored that Apple, with the release of Leopard, will sell the final version of Boot Camp for Mac OS X Tiger for $ 30.

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However, it is now clear that there will be a time gap between the expiration of Boot Camp and the release of Leopard, or the release of the final version of Boot Camp for Tiger.



Apple does not officially answer questions about its plans for Boot Camp and whether they will make changes due to the Leopard delay.



Now still Boot Camp 1.2 can be downloaded for free from the Apple site.



via InfoWorld