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    Living with Leopard: Book VII — So How Many Bugs Does Leopard Really Have?

    November 6th, 2007

    Some years back, one of the developers for Mac OS 7.0 told me about a very obscure bug that had been allowed to persist in the operating system. It seemed that something would crash on the twentieth level of a new folder if you did something to it, such as create another new folder nested […]


    The Tiger Report: The Last One?

    September 27th, 2006

    With so much attention devoted to Apple’s latest efforts, you can easily forget that there is actually another product that’s bundled with every new Mac, still available on the store shelves, which you may be taking for granted these days. That’s Tiger. Tiger? Well, yes. After all, Leopard is still just a dream and not […]


    The Leopard Report: Should Apple Try to Upstage Windows Vista?

    February 11th, 2006

    In the software development game, few things are certain. However, it does appear to me that Microsoft has little alternative but to get its Windows Vista operating system out the door before the end of the year. Sure it’s late, and yes features were jettisoned along the way, but it’s been years since the last […]


    Reading the Tea Leaves on Future Universal Applications

    February 4th, 2006

    I can see plenty of logic in Apple’s early release of the first MacIntels. First of all, the hardware was ready to roll, and getting the products out quickly will not only help move product at a time when Mac sales are slowing, but force third party developers to hurry up and get their Universal […]