Microsoft EOLed Office 2004 this year (i.e., after "only" 5 years),
so your example isn't particularly strong one, especially since
you are comparing an application to an entire OS.
But if applications are fair game, MS released Internet Explorer
5.2 for OS X in 2002, stopped updating it in 2003, and officially
ended support for it in 2005.
Moving to something somewhat more analogous to an OS, I'd be
interested in knowing if Silverlight 1 is still being supported.
After all,
I can imagine that there are people who would say that it works just
fine for them and don't want the troubles of an upgrade, etc.
From: Jeff Wright <jswri...@gmail.com>
Apple supports the current and previous versions of the OS. They
price their
OS upgrades very reasonably and they have a quality product (not
Vista). It
is easy for their customers to keep up and they get lots of value
with each
upgrade. It makes little sense to support X.3.
I should add that the Microsoft Office updater on the same Macs is
having no trouble finding and installing updates to Office 2004, which
is roughly the same age as 10.3.
I'm sure they're only doing it to make Apple look bad. Apple rules
and MS drools. Everyone knows that.
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