Introduced in 2006 as a beta of OS X Tiger, Boot Camp has now been with us for 14 years.
But Apple has historically been a hardware-centric company and if selling a few Macs that could run Windows would sell a few more Macs, nobody at Apple felt a strong need to stand in the way. What wasn't inevitable was that this feature would come from Apple. It was almost inevitable (at least from an engineering perspective) that a boot loaded that could load Windows would be available for these very PC-like Macs. Fundamentally, Intel-based Macs are very close in implementation to PCs, often sharing some of the same off-the-shelf components.
Windows virtual desktops: How you can manage, monitor and virtualise devices remotelyīoot Camp is essentially a side-effect of the architectural design of Intel-based Macs.
