Now that the Blu-Ray is available to the market it was only a matter of time until a burning software was available.

The curious thing is that this software wasn’t released for the Windows platform as we expected but for Mac.

Roxio, a Sonic Solutions division presented Toast 7 which will enable Mac users who buy external Blu-ray drives to store up to 50 GB of data on recordable discs.

The present generation of Macs does not include native support for Blu-ray media so Toast 7 has hit the market at the right time to exploit the needs of early adopters. The software allows users to burn BD-R discs and re-write data to BD-RE discs using the familiar drag and drop file copying method.

It seems that Toast 7 treats Blu-ray discs as a removable storage device so it will write the data directly (on the fly) without the need for caching on the hard drive first. I wonder how well and what probability to fail will you have if you write 50GB without caching the data.

The arrival of a Blu-Ray burning software means that Apple will choose to support Blu-Ray technology or will they stay still until one next-gen media (Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) will gain the market. This way, they won’t do a wrong move but at the same time they could be accused of not having initiative.

Until more details will be available we can’t do anything but wait.