Otherwise, upgrading from a fully activated version of Windows 7 or 8.x to Windows 10 on a Mac with a Boot Camp partition will work pretty much the same way as it does on a PC, including the oddities involved in getting a new product key and performing clean, properly activated installs. If you want to do anything more complicated than tap-to-click with your multitouch trackpad, you'll need to use a third-party driver like TrackPad++, which actually does do a decent job of supporting Windows 10's new trackpad gestures once you've played with the settings a bit. The Boot Camp software still supports Windows 8.1, too, but official Windows 7 support was dropped back in March.īoot Camp 6 brings new drivers but not many other features-the Boot Camp Control Panel is still barebones, and it still uses OS X 10.4-era folder icons. If that seems a bit stingy, remember that most PC OEMs aren't officially supporting systems older than 2012, either. The new Boot Camp update supports all iMacs, Mac Minis, Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, MacBooks Airs, and MacBooks released after 2012 that's not to say that you can't get it working on older Macs, but you're on your own. It’s up to Microsoft to change its licensing rules. New installs of Windows using the Boot Camp Assistant tool should download the new drivers automatically, and those performing upgrade installs can use the Windows version of Apple's Software Update tool to download the new drivers before performing the Windows 10 upgrade install. Microsoft doesn’t license Windows 10 on ARM to non-PC makers, so Apple’s ARM-based Macs won’t support Windows through a Boot Camp mode. If you're one of those people who runs Windows on your Mac, good news: Apple has just released Boot Camp 6, which brings updated drivers and official support for Windows 10 to the company's hardware.

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