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The contest is now officially over
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So it's official. A programmer named Blanka was able to get past all of the EFI issues and has provided a working solution to natively run Windows XP on an a Mac. The programmer can now claim the $13,854 prize thanks to his video of the installation and booting of Microsoft's ubiquitous OS on an Intel-based iMac. Winxponmac.com posted this on its site:
Contest has been won. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution
You can head on over to Engadget to see a 7.7MB video of Windows XP on a Mac.
For those of you unfamiliar with the contest, here were the rules for $13k prize:
1. Instructions must boot Windows XP (at least), not Vista or any other version of Windows.
2. Windows must be able to coexist with Mac OS X and each system may not interfere with the operation of the other (basically a traditional dual boot system where one OS is running at a time)
3. Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP (hint: GRUB / LILO)
Source: Dailytech
*images.dailytech.com/nimage/792_xpmac.jpg
So it's official. A programmer named Blanka was able to get past all of the EFI issues and has provided a working solution to natively run Windows XP on an a Mac. The programmer can now claim the $13,854 prize thanks to his video of the installation and booting of Microsoft's ubiquitous OS on an Intel-based iMac. Winxponmac.com posted this on its site:
Contest has been won. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution
You can head on over to Engadget to see a 7.7MB video of Windows XP on a Mac.
For those of you unfamiliar with the contest, here were the rules for $13k prize:
1. Instructions must boot Windows XP (at least), not Vista or any other version of Windows.
2. Windows must be able to coexist with Mac OS X and each system may not interfere with the operation of the other (basically a traditional dual boot system where one OS is running at a time)
3. Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP (hint: GRUB / LILO)
Source: Dailytech