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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Apr 20, 2015 10:51AM

We run Apple BootCamp on all our Macs at my office. Various versions of Windows are installed on them: Win 7 32-bit and Win 7 Pro 64-bit. We don't have 8.1 running on any of them.

Once installed, the Macs boot up into Windows just like an ordinary PC. The Windows OS runs natively--that is the Apple OS is not running, and Windows is not running in emulation mode (other software like Parallels which run Windows in emulation mode). The Apple keyboard is mapped to the Windows keyboard (although on some keyboards, it can be confusing to figure out at first where the Windows' Alt and Control keys have been mapped to).

JAWS runs and operates just as it does on regular PCs. No difference that we've found.

Bottom line: when you use BootCamp to install and run Windows on a Macintosh, you're just running Windows. Nothing's different.

--Bevi Chagnon