This has always been the tradeoff between Apple and Microsoft.
Microsoft tends to value backwards compatibility, but moves very
slowly to evolve their OS and software into superior products, since
they are stuck in a quagmire of backwards compatibility. Even the
ages old 8086 processor balonie(ie, interrupts, etc.) are antiquated
and should have been superseded a long time ago, but haven't been in
order to maintain backwards compatibility. That is a blessing and a
curse.
Apple on the other hand, has made serious advancements in its hardware
and software over the past 5-10 years. On the other hand, backwards
compatibility is often a nightmare for customers and software
developers both. That is the price to pay for a technically much
superior operating system that is evolving significantly I guess, but
make no mistake, there is a price to pay.
Pick your poison.
In summary, in doggie years (Apple), 5 years is an eternity and yes,
Panther is ancient. But 5 years for Microsoft is nothing. Are they
out of beta yet? (just kidding).
So yea, Panther is dated. Yes, XP is not dated. Leopard is awesome
though. For me, lately I have fallen in love with Leopard and I'm
getting rid of my PC's and going all mac.
On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:34 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 11 Jul 2008 at 19:14, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
But 10.3 is quite dated now.
I just don't understand this mentality. According to Wikipedia,
Panther was released Oct. 24, 2003, which means it's less than 5
years old. I'm running WinXP on my laptop and Win2K on my desktop,
which means that both of my OS's are older than five years old.
It's ridiculous for Apple to release OS versions that are not
backwardly compatible and for software vendors to design their apps
such they they are incompatible with OS versions that are only 5
years old.
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David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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