Apple Computer on Tuesday released Mac OS X 10.4.7, a maintenance and security update to its Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system. The update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for [some] applications and technologies.
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Member since:2005-09-06
I think he is doing it more as a politicle statment. Lucky for me, I agree with him, I am sick of apple calling it Mac os X 10.4.?. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
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Every thing I read points out that the X stands for ten, not that it means mac os X, as in the letter x, but for the number 10.
Also who cares if he puts Mac and Os together. Its not a big deal, but I do recognise that it isnt correct.
Member since:2005-07-06
"Also who cares if he puts Mac and Os together. Its not a big deal, but I do recognise that it isnt correct."
Too many people have nothing better to do that to correct peoples spelling, grammar and punctuation. But I guess that is much easier than constructive criticism.
I will probably try to install the upgrade again today. A bit of a disaster yesterday, but only from a time aspect.
Member since:2005-08-12
Yes, of course X is pronounced TEN, but that is ultimately irrelevant to the point and allowing personal, misguided agenda to affect the professionalism and accuracy of an article is downright silly. People may think it's nitpicking but it's more than that. Misspelling the name or leaving out the X altogether affects the accuracy of the search feature provided on the site, among other things. If I type in "OS X" to get the latest news on that OS, then the article posted just a few days ago titled "Apple To Unveil MacOS 10.5 at WWDC" doesn't even show up among the search results. So is being inconsistent on naming conventions helping the function or professionalism of this site? Apparently not.
Furthermore, it's a bit late to be making political statements on Apple's naming conventions... or was everyone looking the other way over the last decade as Apple printed up discs saying Mac OS 8 version 8.5", "Mac OS 9 v9.1", etc.
..and when the day comes and we move on to OS XI/OS 11, Im betting we'll still see things like "version 11.0.4" following it up.
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2006-02-05
Indeed. OSNews tends to write "MacOS" which is not the correct name. It's like writing "Tom" instead of "Thom" all the time