Why would a flash clone be similiar to an OS? On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:25 PM, David K Watson <davidkirkwat...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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. >> >> > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
