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Whatever Happened to... Mac OS X Leopard?

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 19:23 UTC

Paul Thurrot, everybody's favourite ~~Microsoft~~ ~~Apple~~ Microsoft zealot, writes on his webpage: "It's funny. Apple calls Microsoft a copy-cat, and yet, I feel like I've seen some of these features somewhere before. Many of the features, however, are just sad. Is this really the best they had to show off right now?" El Reg agrees with him, saying: "On the basis of the evidence so far the sixth release of Mac OS X is, to put it bluntly, a point release." Update by ELQ: A related editorial by Wired.

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RE: "El Reg"

by DrillSgt on Tue 8th Aug 2006 20:08 UTC in reply to ""El Reg""

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2005-12-02

"What a stupid comment. 10.5 IS a point release. Remember, it's OS X (OS 10). 10.4 is current, 10.5 is the new one. It's a minor version change, a point release so to speak."

True for those that know how to read it, false for those that just go by advertising. It is being advertised as a brand new version, not just a minor release.

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RE[2]: "El Reg"

by rcsteiner on Tue 8th Aug 2006 20:49 in reply to "RE: "El Reg""

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2005-07-12

That's no differnt from Windows 98 versus the last OEM versions of Windows 95, except OS X 10.5 might actually include some new features (OSR2.5 already had USB support, FAT32, and MSIE, and those were the big things in the 95->98 "update").

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RE[3]: "El Reg"

by cilcoder on Tue 8th Aug 2006 22:27 in reply to "RE[2]: "El Reg""

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2005-07-06

The later versions of Windows 95 didn't really have USB support. It could detect that you plugged somethign in and then crash.. ATleast that was my experience with it.

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