“Contest has been won – updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution,” reads an announcement on the “Windows XP on an Intel Mac Contest” website.
The total prize won amounts to US$13,854.
The rules of the contest included such provisions as:
• Instructions must boot Windows XP (at least), not Vista or any other version of Windows.
• 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)
• Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP
• You cannot use virtualization software such as Xen or VMWare
• Winner gives contest website the rights to post the solution exclusively
More info here.
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