On Jun 19, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Bill Holt wondered: > I wonder, has anyone had good experience with Norton in the recent > past? So far as I know, the last time it was useful was when > system 6 was current.
Symantec has a long history of buying up good Mac software companies and milking the software with minimal upgrades until the software no longer works. The prime example of this is Central Point Software. When Symantec acquired Central Point Software, MacTools, from Central Point, was the best Macintosh disk utility. Symantec let it whither and die a slow death by not updating it. There are other examples. Although Symantec claims their utilities will not destroy your hard drive, if used in Tiger, they also say there will be no more upgrades. From the horse's mouth [1] "Norton SystemWorks and Norton Utilities will NOT be updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4." Several people reported that the last Norton Utilities Macintosh engineer at Symantec was hunting for a new job at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference a few weeks ago [2]. I gave up on Norton Utilities somewhere around System 8.5 when routine repairs thoroughly trashed some disks. [1] <http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/docid/ 2005032314263511> [2] <http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/469?50 at 434.w8eja4py2aA@> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050620/186096bc/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050620/186096bc/attachment.bin
