Since Mac OS X 10.3 came out in 2003, I have been writing about the features I wanted to see in Tiger. Ever optimistic, I really hoped I’d see some of them in the final release. Even when most didn’t appear in the initial list, I remained hopeful. Now that all 220 features are out […]

No, Microsoft haters, don’t begin that loud applause just yet. Whatever problems Microsoft is confronting these days, the company isn’t going away any time soon, or that matter for the foreseeable future. It is huge, well entrenched, and, frankly, people are just plain accustomed to using Windows, Office and all the rest. But there are […]

I really believed it wouldn’t happen, but it did. The 10.3.9 update wasn’t the last for Panther. A strange Java-related bug that apparently slipped through Apple’s quality control process intervened and thus begat the Java Update for Mac OS 10.3.9. Says Apple: “After updating to Mac OS X 10.3.9, some systems may have issues with […]

Some show business figures, and you know who they are, spend years staging final concerts. After a while it gets downright boring. Now I did promise that my first “Final” report on Panther would be the last, and I have to tell you I was very optimistic. I mean, it didn’t seem possible that Apple […]