Schiller to demo new Windows Migration Assistant in Leopard?
Anonymous (make believe) sources have suggested that Phil Schiller may be preparing to demonstrate an as yet to be announced feature of Leopard at WWDC or some other 10.5 announcement event; a built in Windows Migration Assistant.
Migration Assistant, a rarely heralded feature of the “Mac Buddy” Setup Assistant that appears on the first boot of a new OS X system, was introduced as part of the 10.3.4 update. This tool helps users relatively effortlessly migrate all User and Application data from a previous Mac system to a new machine; all done via FireWire Target Disk mode.
The new version of Migration Assistant and Mac Buddy, slated to appear as part of Leopard, promises to capitalize on the “iPod Halo Effect” and hopeful “TV Halo Effect” by helping Switchers move their personal documents from their old Windows machine to a newly purchased Mac.
Details are scarce at this point, and it remains to be seen how this will be achieved. Some speculation is that a Boot Camp-like burned CD of Windows software will be used to configure the host PC to the required settings for data to be transfered over Ethernet, WiFi, or FireWire.
March 24th, 2007 at 4:16 am
That would be really cool, so many Switchers ask the question about how to get their PC stuff over to the Mac, if this was addressed by Leopard then it would be yet another possible objection removed deterring Switchers form making the Switching to Mac step…