14 DAY TRIAL // Apple's Boot Camp is, arguably, the biggest thing that came out of the Apple labs this year. However, despite how much attention the Dual Boot solution received, it seems that Apple has started to keep it low.
On the 'Get a Mac' section of Apple's site, under the 'You can even run Windows Software' entry there is surprisingly little mention of Apple's Boot Camp? none, in fact. Instead of Apple's own Boot Camp solution, they are pushing forward Parallels' solution, something that has stirred up quite a bit of debate.
Many are wondering whether Apple will abandon Boot Camp now that a virtualization solution is available, something that will make a lot of people unhappy as only with a dual boot system can you get the most out of the hardware for resource intensive tasks such as games and specialized programs.
Other are suggesting that Apple might be getting friendly with Parallels, in order to buy them or their product out and use it in the next upcoming version of OS X, something that is very unlikely as Apple probably already had their own solution in the works for quite some time. If they kept OS X running on both platforms from the very beginning, it seems unlikely that they did no research whatsoever in virtualization.
In all likeness, it is probably just the fact that Boot Camp is Beta software, and as such has certain strings attached. Also, Apple is a great fan of simplicity and function, and a dual boot solution is by no means as practical as a virtualization one for anything other than games. As such, Apple probably looked at the figures and concluded that most of the users would prefer a solution such as that offered by Parallels, rather than that of Boot Camp.