Remember when Apple promised that Boot Camp would be updated to officially support Windows 7 in late 2009? It turns out that promise was a few weeks off, but the company has finally delivered, only one week after Microsoft's beloved Patch Tuesday.
Boot Camp 3.1 for 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows, recommended for all users of Boot Camp 3.0, finally brings official support for the Apple wireless keyboard and everybody's favorite Apple Magic Mouse. There are also a few bugs fixed for the Apple trackpad, and the infrared sensor on all MacBooks now turns off on when it's not being used, to help conserve battery power.
But wait, there's more. For ladies and gents planning to do a straight upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista instead of a clean install, there's this lovely Boot Camp Utility upgrade. It fixes an error that occurs because the Windows 7 installer foolishly tries to write to your computer's read-only Mac OS X partition. Just download the file while you're in Windows Vista, follow the rest of the directions in this tech note, and you're good to go.