Windows Still Available to Labs and Classrooms While this is the least important on the list, it can't be ignored that by removing dual-boot functionality, staff can focus their efforts on continuing to create a safe, well-performing computer environment. A lot of work is involved with building, testing, deploying, patching and upgrading the 500+ dual-boot computers in use in our computer labs and classrooms. Providing a dual-boot environment is extremely labor-intensive.Removing Windows from our Macs will eliminate the risk and complexities around patching. For the past several years, while we've provided patches and updates as best we could to the Windows OS on dual-boot computers, due to complexities in the dual-boot environment, we are no longer confident that we'll be able to maintain, patch and upgrade Windows on macOS in a timely manner. Security of Bowdoin computers and Bowdoin data is a top priority for IT and for the college.While Windows 10 is available for ARM processors (the base processor type of Apple's M1 processor), Apple does not provide a way to enable dual-boot on their new machines. With Apple's switch away from Intel processors, we can technically no longer provide dual-boot on new Macs.
There are three main reasons why this offering is being removed. Starting this summer, we will no longer be offering dual-boot as an option in classrooms, labs or on faculty and staff computers. Since then, IT has offered dual-boot Macs in classrooms and labs as a way to deliver macOS and Windows and allow faculty and students a choice as to which platform they are comfortable with.
Apple introduced supported dual-boot functionality when they adopted Intel processors about 10 years ago.
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