Bootcamp 5.1.4 and Windows 7

Good Morning Everyone
From the looks of things Apple has discontinued Windows 7 support in the version of boot camp that comes with the latest MacBook Air's that are shipping. Is anyone familiar with a work around for this? Parallels or any other sort of VM Product is not an acceptable solution for us. I also cannot install Windows 8.1 as it is not yet supported in my environment.
I work in Healthcare and support several thousand devices and even more users. I would like to begin looking at MacBook's and Mac Mini's as a viable solution for our organization but at the same time I need to keep things looking and feeling the same for my users so I need to stick with a Windows environment. To introduce OS X into the organization with a VM product like Parallels is not going to sit well and is going to inundate my service desk with calls. Our main Healthcare Information System also does not support Windows 8 so I cannot just move with the times.
I would appreciate any suggestions anyone might have.
Thanks for your time
J

BC Assistant is a utility that partitions your disk and creates a bootable device to boot from. For Macs after Late 2013 models, Windows can be installed without using BC Assistant. It requires the creation of a manual partition of Free Space or FAT format and booting from a bootable Windows device. If you have Windows Installer on physical media on USB, it is easier, otherwise you can use a tool like Rufus USB (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) or https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-21472 17396 and boot from it and select the Windows-designated partition. Windows will be installed using generic drivers. You can download Windows support software appropriate for you hardware from System requirements to install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp - Apple Support, some of which is only available via BCA's Download Software option.
If you run into any driver issues, WHQL drivers can also be used, but should be tested first.

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Hello
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As this all worked perfectly with the iMac, Windows XP and same OSX Snow Leopard I don't understand why it wouldn't work on the older Mac Pro. Although, having said this, the instructiond did only mention newer versions of Windows - 7 and possibly 8.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
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Greetings
I just upgraded from Mountain Lion and Windows 7 Ultimate (Bootcamp) to Yosemite and Windows 8.1 Pro on a late 2012 MBP 13" Retina. Prior to the upgrades, I was able to drive the retina panel and two external monitors simultaneously when operating directly in Bootcamp. Now, I can only drive 2 of the 3 simultaneously though all three are recognized under Graphic Properties. I simply cannot find any option or profile under Graphics Properties or Options or Personalization to run all three screens.
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As an aside, thanks again for all of your help and terrific input to upgrade both the Mac and Windows operating systems. As I was going from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 Pro, one thing I did come across that made life much easier was to upgrade first to Windows 8 so I could keep my apps. The jump from 7 to 8.1 would otherwise migrate my personal files, but not programs and require a lot of time to reinstall all. This was completely avoided by going to Windows 8 first.
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G.

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I currently have the latest version of Tiger installed on my MacBook's internal HDD (10.4.11) and I have an External USB HDD that has Leopard (I can't remember if it is the latest or not) installed on it.
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Hi,
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There is one how-to, that claims to let you install Windows on an external harddisk, see here: http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-dr ive/
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Since you have a 'Windows' partition on your external HD, that is big enough, you can use it to clone your internal Tiger partition to that using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and after verifying that the new Tiger partition is bootable, clone your Leopard from the external to the internal HD.
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And at last you can cleaar-up your external HD of everything you don't want/need anymore.
Regards
Stefan

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