Hmph. Well, that explains that.....
One of the touted features of the huge updater to Office:Mac v.X coming up next month was antialiased text, which is a feature we all know Carbon apps aren't yet privy to. Because of this, we assumed that 10.2(.5?) would be released shortly after WWDC or at MWNY where the Carbon API would be updated to take advantage of the smooth-text rendering. However, according to Think Secret, Apple will be releasing yet another dot-hundredth of an upgrade before the big one hits that is already testing internally. Apparently, 10.1.5 incorporates Carbon antialiasing among other improvements. Given Apple's track record, I'm assuming that pretty much means that 10.2(.5?) won't be released until the end of the summer..... like two days before the end. 
This should be well worth it then, meesa thinks, though I can't help feeling a bit impatient. Thoughts?
This should be well worth it then, meesa thinks, though I can't help feeling a bit impatient. Thoughts?
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[quote]Originally posted by sjpsu:
<strong>Will 10.2 be a free update for 10.1 users?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm sure. Plus $20 shipping and handling.
With 10.2, all carbon apps will AUTOMATICALLY get the nice font smoothing. No extra code required.
<strong>Will 10.2 be a free update for 10.1 users?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I hope so.
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I hope so.</strong><hr></blockquote>
...but I doubt it...
Also, if it is free you wont pay for it
<strong>Er, 9.0 --> 9.2.2 = free updates, correct? No reason to believe 10.0 --> 10.2 wouldn't be either.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ahhh.... but the difference is that all of the updates to 9.x have been exclusively for maintainence purposes -- it's yesterday's OS. Personally, I think it's perfectly acceptable for Apple to charge for major changes to tomorrow's OS (MacOS X, of course).
Relationships between MS and Apple are on the ropes at the moment. I've become aware that Apple is polling users for feedback about a) Microsoft, b) the importance of Microsoft software, c) running OS X apps on Windows, and d) running Mac OS X on a PC. I'm not sure if Apple is going to do either of C or D, but I'm led to believe by this alone that Apple is seeing the importance of M$ software to their customers. There's also the happening of the Apple ad about Mac OS X and the UNIX underpinnings that was placed in a *nix-oriented magazine a week or a few ago in which Apple mentioned Netscape (according to Slashdot, and apparently, Gates himself called up Jobs in a fit of anger and asked him something along the lines of 'how he was going to explain the demise of Office v.X,' or so Jobs told CNN). And of course, Microsoft's contract with Apple is up, and they've been doing all of that relatively anti-PC advertising of late.
I have a serious feeling that Apple and Microsoft are preparing for an all out war again, and Microsoft is more than likely going to drop their Mac products. If there isn't already something implemented in Microsoft's OS X software that could trigger them to stop working in the event that Microsoft did such a thing to Apple, I wouldn't put it past them to issue it in an update like this. Of course it all depends on the timing, too.
9.1.x --> 9.2.1 = 82 MB
9.2.1 --> 9.2.2 = 21.3 MB
Maintenance or not, a lot changed in each update. And I don't expect 10.2 to have too many interface improvements, especially since most of these improvements will just be reimplemented stuff lost when we migrated from 9 to X.
Wrong version of Mac Office. The Gates-Apple threat is old hat:
Gates also denied that Microsoft ever threatened to cancel the Macintosh version of Office or that Microsoft officials ever discussed such a course among themselves. But in an E-mail to Gates in June, 1997, one company official wrote: "The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest bargaining point we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately."
from a 1998 Business Week article
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/microsoft/updates/up81102a.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/microsoft/updates/up81102a.htm</a>;
[quote]If there isn't already something implemented in Microsoft's OS X software that could trigger them to stop working in the event that Microsoft did such a thing to Apple, I wouldn't put it past them to issue it in an update like this. Of course it all depends on the timing, too.<hr></blockquote>
Thats just a little paranoid, and illegal. You think MS would be silly enough to invite the DOJ to investigate agaain by taking such blatant action. There is, and will be no war over platforms/OS's.
Now the internet may be another matter entirely.
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Funny, but not very believable. If Gates did such a thing, even Dubya himself couldn't get in the way of an anti-trust lawsuit by the justice department. And in only 2.5 years, Dubya will be gone and a democratic attorney general will bend M$ over a barrel.
<strong>Er, 9.0 --> 9.2.2 = free updates, correct? No reason to believe 10.0 --> 10.2 wouldn't be either.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Exactly why they may call it 10.5 instead of 10.2. System 8.5 and I believe 7.5 were both full pay upgrades.
I don't consider the $20 shipping fee a paid upgrade since you were able to get if free from various outlets. Although it is a rip-off for shipping.
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Exactly why they may call it 10.5 instead of 10.2. System 8.5 and I believe 7.5 were both full pay upgrades.
I don't consider the $20 shipping fee a paid upgrade since you were able to get if free from various outlets. Although it is a rip-off for shipping.
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MacOS 7 = pay
MacOS 7.1 = free
MacOS 7.5 = pay
(we had 7.5.1-7.5.3v2-7.5.5 free.. what a fiasco...)
MacOS 7.6 = pay(!)
MacOS 8 = pay
MacOS 8.1 = free
MacOS 8.5 = pay
MacOS 8.6 = free
MacOS 9 = pay
MacOS 9.1-.2 = free
MacOS Xpb = pay
MacOS X = pay
MacOS X.I = pay (unless you had voucher and picked it up at a mac store)
MacOS X.II = pay (same deal as X.I), 20$
OR it will be marketed as
MacOS X.V = FULL pay (129$)
The reason I can't see it being called X.V is because it would mean that about a year after X.V was launched, Apple would have to come up with a new OS name... it would be called MacOS XI (eleven... or you could try and pronounce it "ksee"
So... keep X name or resort to XI... or totally change the name of the OS and go back to arabic numbers (11).
[ 04-25-2002: Message edited by: ZO ]</p>