New Microsoft Business Strategy
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Owing to their losing market share, Microsoft today announced that they would begin cutting prices on all future operating systems down to $175, but would be discontinuing it’s policy of free service packs. Instead, they’ll be charging upwards of $25 for security and functionality improvements. These paid-for service packs will only work on a limited set of hardware. Supported hardware will only be announced once the service pack is released.
Perhaps this will help spur adoption of Chrome…
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Sometimes you miss. In case it’s not clear, I’m saying that this is Apple’s current strategy, and that it’s kind of awful.
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It turns out that this is only potentially funny if you follow the links. And people aren’t doing that. Shame on you 
It should be noted that Apple’s versioning scheme is not quite what you might think. All versions of MacOS since March 24th, 2001 have been OS X, and all versions of OS X are version 10.#. So, a 0.1 increase in the version number is a major new release, equivalent to jumping from, say, Windows 2000 to Windows XP. Snow Leopard isn’t just a service pack, it’s the next major OS version.
This odd versioning is due to the questionable decision to name OS X after it’s version number. The X ostensibly stands for 10, since the previous MacOS was MacOS 9. It wouldn’t make since to keep calling it OS X if they moved on to version 11, and OS X is now a major and successful brand name that they don’t want to abandon.