RSSApple to Slow Mac OS X Updates
By David Worthington | Published May 19, 2004, 3:17 PM
Apple will halt its steady succession of upgrades to Mac OS X and take up a slower, more sustainable pace. According to reports, Apple Chief Software Technology Officer Avie Tevanian made such remarks during his talk at the SIIA Enterprise Software Summit 2004.
Since its inception, three major revisions have been issued for OS X with yet another on the way code-named "Tiger." Apple has announced that CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the Worldwide Developers Conference with a keynote address on June 28 at 10:00 AM PST. In his keynote, Jobs will reveal Tiger's stripes with a preview of the operating system.
No further information on Tiger is available at this time.
The operating system's latest rendition, version 10.3.3, addressed some of networking sore spots, improved hardware support and enhanced native applications.
In related news, Apple has updated its .Mac service -- an online extension of OS X -- with: new publishing options for HomePage; integrated iCards with the .Mac Address Book; over 200 new iCards to the .Mac e-greetings site; new Parental Control software from Norton and new site navigation features including a new UI; and better page-loading performance.
Also, and of greater interest to most then yet more iCards (woo-hoo...) is that Windows machines are now supported on dotMac. For those of us in multi-platform environments this is good news. It was really annoying to get 'you can't do this from a Windows web browser' messages when there was no good technical reason for it.
What has yet to be addressed are the frequent service interruptions, stealth email filtering, and yet greater integration with Windows. POP & IMAP are obviously already cross-platform. WebDAV is too though there's a special dotMac client one can use to make it even easier. iCal doesn't seem to yet have a good Windows client, and Backup is Mac only.
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|Each release they must name it as an animal that belongs to the kingdom of feline. After tiger, what they going to name? White Tiger? Asian Tiger? Egypitian Cat? That's just soo original of Apple
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|oh. . . this clearly shows how you got no idea about Apple's marketing . . . tsk tsk, next release its Codenamed: Simba !!
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|Actually the cat names were originally internal Apple codenames. However they got used so widely, and were so popular, Apple eventually went ahead and based a marketing campaign on 'em. Besides which, which is easier for most folks to remember: Panther/Jaguar/Tiger/etc. vs. Windows [Server/DataCenter/Media/Tablet/Pocket/etc.] [Year] [Release V.], except for all of the exceptions? Folks can remember the codenames, MS's product names could as well be SKU codes.
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|Hmmm, I like Simba. We could also go for Garfield, Felix, Heathcliff. Oh but then the lawyers would step in. How about Lion, Ocelot, Margay, Leopard, Cougar or even housecat? ;-) At least I can remember cat names rather than Microsoft's cities.
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|I like the top part of todays beta news
"A second release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 2 may be inching closer. BetaNews has received word that Windows Update V5 has reached RC2. Windows Update V5"
so what the heck are they saying ?? is it RC2 being released or is it v5 of RC2 which is actually RC3 but they cant release it before RC2 so the call it RC2 V5.
how bout V1.R1.0.0.01 B of a better fringin OS PLZ
I like the cat names, else it would be 10.2 10.3 10.4
numbers are cool but they get old. id like to see maybe
different version such as Black panther or bangle tiger.
either way its a lot better then M$
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