Re: Mac OS 10.5 is "pretty old now" ?
Re: Mac OS 10.5 is "pretty old now" ?
- Subject: Re: Mac OS 10.5 is "pretty old now" ?
- From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:22:20 -0700
On Mar 25, 2011, at 09:11, Dallman, John wrote:
>> To me, Windows XP seems "pretty old", but my company-deployed
>> iMac 8 (my first Mac ever) shipped to me with 10.5 on it in
>> 2008 does not seem "pretty old".
>
> Apple updates its operating system more frequently than Microsoft
> tries to update Windows. Windows XP has also had a very long life
> because MS took five years to come up with a successor in Vista -
> there was apparently a failed project at MS accounting for part of
> the delay - and then Vista did not find market acceptance. Apple
> has been more successful in persuading its customers to update.
>
> I'd expect that when Mac OS X 10.7 is released, support for 10.5
> will basically cease, and 10.6 will stop getting point releases,
> and just get security packs. That fits the pattern Apple have used
> for the last few years.
[snip!]
I would say that for all practical purposes, point releases for 10.6 are over. We'll get the security updates but that will be pretty much it. I have filled a few bugs against 10.6 and I started receiving emails from dev support to inform me that they believe some issues I reported were fixed in the pre-release version of Lion. So, Snow Leopard is already on the back burner...
-Laurent.
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