On 19 Aug 2003 at 19:20, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 06:55 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > And what really matters is not an OS version's *release* date, but > > the last date at which it was available on machines. > > That's the key difference between Macs and PCs. Macs always ship with > the most up-to-date version of the OS. As soon as OS 9 came out, > Apple stopped selling machines with OS 8.6. Apple hasn't shipped a > machine with OS 8.6 on it since January 10th, 1999.
That's only a little more than 4 years ago. And how long were those machines in the supply pipeline? My point stands -- it makes no difference whether Apple ceases to make machines with the old OS when the new OS is released. There are still plenty of people who've bought machines with the older OS a short time before the release of the next version. Again, it's when the OS *stopped* being current, not when it was released, that should control how long it's supported by software makers, simply because otherwise, they'd be abandoning large numbers of their potential users. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
