NO, Discostu, it isn't. It is merely a Windows machine that has not had the proper Windows drivers installed.
Once they are installed, it is a Windows machine... completely.
That is the basic problem that Vista has had with a lot of hardware set-ups... lack of proper drivers for 3rd party peripherals or internals. Same problem.
The fact is that the Mac running Windows on the basic machine, has already passed the Vista compatibility tests. How difficult is it to understand that the problems you posted are exactly the same as a Windows machine that has not had the proper drivers installed? Once the drivers are installed, the problems GO AWAY.
When you have 10s or 100s of thousands of PC customers, you are going to have many multiples of combinations of hardware and driver issues... it is nothing more than exactly the same with the Apple hardware... except that the driver issues are easy to resolve with the disk image that Apple includes with Boot Camp... customized to the Apple hardware. How is it any different than Joe PCuser with his oddball graphic card from no-name GC, Inc.? They have to support him... they have to support Apple's much more standard hardware.
Do you really think that the tech support desks have actually had regression test of their software run on every possible combination of hardware that every PC maker has pushed out the door... or that Joe Blow hobbyist has built? Of course not. They still have to support what is presented to them. The platform is the OS... Windows. When booted from a partition created by Boot Camp (which is all Boot Camp does, other than provide a disk of Windows drivers for the hardware), there is not an iota of Mac OS running. It is Windows.
Seriously, have you, personally, been turned down for support on a Windows problem by a 3rd party tech support for YOUR Apple? Didn't think so.
Look you asked for differences, I found differences, don’t try to write them off they ARE differences. That’s the problem with you Mac guys, you get so worked up whenever anybody points out that the Mac world isn’t 100% perfect. Face reality there ARE differences and that means any smart company needs to find out if the differences effect their product.
That firewire sound card problem doesn’t magically go away.
Actually they don’t have to support the guy with the oddball graphics card. I’ve seen software that listed unsupported graphics cards, because they didn’t work with those cards and they decided the problem with the cards was more trouble to fix than it was worth.
I KNOW as a decade plus professional QA engineer that you NEVER announce support for ANY platform without a full regression EVER under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Mac is a different platform, no matter how much you say it isn’t those links I found PROVE IRREFUTABLY that it is, and therefore no company that deserves to be in business will support it without the test. I don’t understand why you wrap your head around this grotesquely simple concept: no support without the test, like I said last week: it is a 100% non-negotiable concept.
HELLO, are you paying any attention at all?! I won’t own an Apple because of the non-support issue. Now really, this has gone beyond stupid in your refusal to grasp the most basic concept of the software business. You asked for differences, I found differences, it’s over, you’re wrong. Goodbye.