Good news for all of you who have an Intel-based Mac and use Windows for whatever reason. Apple updated Boot Camp to version 6.1.16 to fix some bugs and introduce new compatibility that many modern Macs will appreciate.
Boot Camp resists, the fight continues
For architectural reasons, Boot Camp cannot be used on Macs with M1 or M2 chips: Windows does not yet have sufficiently advanced support for ARM chips. But Microsoft’s OS Setup Wizard on an Intel-based Mac is still in use, and it’s good news that Apple continues to support it.
The most important novelties are the support for Wi-Fi networks with WPA3 encryption and a fix for a Bluetooth bug that could prevent the Mac from coming out of sleep mode. And if you work with an Apple Studio Display, you have a specific version, 6.1.17, so that Windows works without problems with this display.
This small update brings a glimmer of hope for the future. Right now the only way to use Windows on a Mac with M1 and M2 chips is to virtualize it through apps like Parallels, but in Cupertino they have to watch out for Microsoft launching a version of Windows stable and efficient enough to offer to install it on a separate macOS partition with exclusive permission from Qualcomm. It may be a matter of time
Boot Camp should update automatically on all Intel-based Macs. You can force the manual update from System Preferences, in the “Software Update” panel.
