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Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X

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In article <barmar-18CF81.23063717042015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <180420151205424678%YourName@YourISP.com>,
>  Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> >
> > And yet although under the hood Mac OS X was different (early Beta
> > versions purposely looked very similar to OS 9) Apple still called it
> > "ten" as the follow-on from "9", rather than coming up with an actual
> > new name of some sort.
> 
> Yes, there was a bit of continuity there.
> 
> And they used 10.0 as the first version of Mac OS X, and since then have 
> only been incrementing the minor version number. They're definitely not 
> totally consistent about it. I think they were trying to say "It's 
> totally new under the hood, but users familiar with the old OS will feel 
> like it's just an incremental improvement.
> 
> But it's still better than Microsoft's crazy numbering for Windows 
> versions. They keep switching between simple version numbers (Windows 
> 3.0), year of release (Windows 98, Windows 2000), random abbreviations 
> (Windows NT), and words (Windows Vista).

They've even skipped "Windoze 9" entirely ... probably partly because
"8" and "9" make it look inferior to the Apple's "10" (but of course
Windoze always is inferior to the Mac OS).

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Hint on future branding of OS-X JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-16 16:37 -0400
  Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-17 12:10 +1200
    Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-16 20:38 -0400
      Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-16 22:52 -0400
        Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-17 16:56 +1200
          Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-17 10:10 -0400
            Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-17 08:15 -0700
              Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-17 17:44 +0000
                Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-17 10:57 -0700
                Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-17 11:02 -0700
                Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-17 19:05 +0000
            Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-18 10:05 +1200
              Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-17 19:13 -0400
                Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-18 12:05 +1200
                Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-17 23:06 -0400
                Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-18 15:37 +1200
            Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-04-17 23:46 +0000
              Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-17 20:00 -0400
  Re: Hint on future branding of OS-X Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-16 21:20 -0700

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