Comments on: New Microsoft Business Strategy http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/01/06/new-microsoft-business-strategy/ Peaking under the Veil of Ignorance Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: HeruFeanor http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/01/06/new-microsoft-business-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-561 HeruFeanor Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:27:56 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=260#comment-561 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. 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.

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