XP SP3 Release Notes Reference "Apple computers"

While reading through the release notes for Windows XP SP3, I was surprised to see a heading labeled "Apple computers." Curious, I read further to see what it said:

Apple computers

This issue affects the Windows XP Home Edition and the Windows XP Professional operating systems.

If you attempt to install this release candidate on an Intel-based Apple computer (Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac) that is running Windows XP SP2, installation may fail with the error "Out of disk space."

To avoid this, manually create a necessary registry key as follows: To create the registry key

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and click String Value.
4. In the text box under the Name column, type BootDir and press ENTER.
5. Right-click the name BootDir, and then click Modify.
6. In the Edit String Value dialog box, type the drive letter for your system drive, and then click OK. For example, if your system drive is C:, type C:\.
7. Close Registry Editor.

After you have created this registry key (or if you created this key when you installed a previous version of this Service Pack), you can proceed with the installation.

While this may not be terribly interesting to most people, I like it because it shows that enough people are using Windows on their Macs for Microsoft to test and debug it's operating system on them (not to mention beta testers as well probably pushing for this). Of course, we all know the real reason why Microsoft would have Macs lying around the offices.