<Tr> <Th> License </Th> <Td> Proprietary </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ </Td> </Tr> <P> Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s macOS 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 . </P> <P> Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the utility was first introduced 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, and Windows Vista . 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 in version 10.8. 3, only 64 - bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are officially supported . </P>

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