Star 'Mac OS X Leopard: a Perfect 10'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Dec 2007 10:23 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
Mac OS X "No one is unhappy with Mac OS X Version 10.4, known as Tiger. OS X is not an application platform that needed repair, speeding up, or exterior renovation. Motivations for major upgrades of competing system software - roll-ups of an unmanageable number of fixes, because the calendar says it's time, or because users are perceived to have version fatigue - don't apply to OS X. People buy Macs because the platform as a whole is perfect, full stop. Leopard is a rung above perfection. It's taken as rote that the Mac blows away PC users' expectations. Leopard blows away Mac users' expectations, and that's saying a great deal."
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RE[2]: Hmmm
by stew on Tue 4th Dec 2007 11:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Hmmm"
stew
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2005-07-06

Removing support for Classic should also deduct points in "compatibility".

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RE[3]: Hmmm
by nobody on Tue 4th Dec 2007 11:27 in reply to "RE[2]: Hmmm"
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2006-06-02

Classic has been of no use to anyone for years now. May as well whine about how it has no support for 68K processors while we're at it.

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RE[4]: Hmmm
by raver31 on Tue 4th Dec 2007 11:37 in reply to "RE[3]: Hmmm"
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2005-07-06

What ? It doesn't ?

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RE[4]: Hmmm
by djame on Tue 4th Dec 2007 14:21 in reply to "RE[3]: Hmmm"
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2005-07-08

It's not quite true, a lot of apps in scientific environment has not been updated for ages. I think that even the mac os x version of omnipage run under some sort of hidden classic env...

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RE[4]: Hmmm
by rockwell on Tue 4th Dec 2007 15:47 in reply to "RE[3]: Hmmm"
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2005-09-13

//Classic has been of no use to anyone for years now. //

Attitudes like this explain why Microsoft rules the desktop. Backward-compatibility wins in the long run, despite the issues associated with it.

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