Hi Kevin,
Yes, I received this negative email from Discus. I don't agree with
their assessment of Snow Leopard.
The majority of problems people are having are caused by not doing the
preparation before upgrading their System, and other Vendor's
software, add-ons, plugins , etc.
It is not up to Apple to make sure non-apple software is compatible
with Snow Leopard it is up to the Vendor.
Most major software companies were very quick to release Snow Leopard
compatible version of their software.
This comment:
The trusting people who recently purchased Apple's Snow Leopard
and immediately installed it were greeted with hundreds of
terrible bugs. It was reckless of Apple not to test their system
more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of paying customers.
Apple not to test their system more thoroughly before releasing it to
millions of paying customers what a load of rubbish that is!
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is designed to protect your Mac from
certain incompatible software that can quit unexpectedly or cause
other issues in Mac OS X v10.6.
When you install Snow Leopard or migrate to Snow Leopard, known-
incompatible software is moved to a folder named Incompatible Software
on your hard drive.
Snow Leopard also prevents known-incompatible software from opening.
If you see an Incompatible software message, contact the software's
vendor or visit their website for a later, compatible version.
Apple certainly with Snow Leopard, have protected people from using
incompatible software.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 21/09/2009, at 7:55 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote:
As a registered user of Discus, I received a mailout which addressed
problems with Discus and operating systems. Interesting?
The following is the message received
At 1:18 AM + 20/9/09, discus world users wrote:
Discus User Alert
Dear registered Discus user, we have seen a flurry of tech support
inquiries in recent weeks about compatibility with Macintosh OSX
10.6 (Snow Leopard) and also Windows users calling about quicktime
issues if they install iTunes 9, as well as information about the
upcoming Windows 7 system.
Rest assured that whenever a major system change occurs, we will
make any necessary changes to Discus immediately and post a new
version on our website at www.magicmouse.com under the Download
Updates section. The latest Discus version is 4.24.
To our knowledge Discus 4 appears to be running fine.
We are seeing huge numbers of problems with Snow Leopard in general
however as Apple really bungled their recent release. Apple had to
rush out a service pack (6.1) to prevent a riot, and many defects
remain. If your livelihood depends on smooth functioning of your
Macintosh, please avoid installing Snow Leopard until 6.2 is
released. Snow 6.0 almost completely ruined printing. If you have
already installed Snow, be sure to download the latest versions of
printer drivers, many companies like Epson updated their drivers
after Snow shipped, and some like DYMO have not yet released Snow
drivers.
We are old hands at computers, going back to the punch card era,
and can state with authority that if you value your time and would
like to avoid unnecessary frustration in your life, we recommend
that you NOT UPGRADE TO ANY NEW OPERATING SYSTEM UNTIL SIX MONTHS
HAVE PASSED. The trusting people who recently purchased Apple's
Snow Leopard and immediately installed it were greeted with
hundreds of terrible bugs. It was reckless of Apple not to test
their system more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of
paying customers.
When you immediately upgrade to a major new operating system
version you are basically volunteering to be an unpaid tester for
the supplier. Unlike bran muffins fresh operating system versions
are not better - they are more like wine which benefits from age.
Operating systems are among the most complex projects ever
attempted with hundreds if not thousands of man years of work
inside, and every major system shipping today went out the door
with tens of thousands of known defects. Both Apple and Microsoft
have a bug tracking system and the managers at Apple and Microsoft
know full well that their products are riddled with defects but
market forces dictate that they ship on a fixed calendar schedule
regardless of the consequences to the customer, and if they waited
until the product was flawless it would never ship at all.
Approximately 35% of the laptops containing Vista were downgraded
to XP. And this is after an entire year of vista on the street.
There are two places you can be in the computer world - the
bleeding edge and the trailing edge, and we recommend to all our
customers to buy proven hardware technologies that are least two
years old and try to stay behind in operating systems until you
start to hit problems because you are too far behind. When you
stay behind
