The Aqua interface: I really loved all the previous Macintosh user interfaces, and while other long-time Mac users weren’t particularly thrilled by the Aqua redesign at the time, I had no problems accepting the new look.
ATOM FOR MAC OS 10.10.5 MAC OS X
I was still using Mac OS 8.6 on my G3 iMac, and a friend gave me the 10.0 CD-ROM only in late July 2001, and when Mac OS X 10.1 Puma was released two months later, I upgraded immediately. I didn’t use 10.0 much at the time of its release. I published a brief visual tour of Mac OS X 10.0.3 on my System Folder blog back in 2008. Siracusa’s contributions on the matter are a marvellous, immense endeavour deserving the highest praise. If you have time and want a more detailed read on the history and evolution of Mac OS X, I strongly suggest checking out this article by John Siracusa and all the links to his monumental Mac OS X reviews and retrospectives listed therein. The specific bits of information taken verbatim from Wikipedia are marked with. (Note that the features I liked the most may not necessarily coincide with important features that were added in each new release).īefore we begin: for practical reasons I’ve heavily relied on Wikipedia as a source of information, simply because there are too many details I can’t just recall by memory. I think that this approach is also a nice way to reminisce a bit about Mac OS X through the years. In this overview, then, I want to go through every major release of Mac OS X, and briefly talk about which new features I’ve liked the most for each release, and which features I was sad to see removed. Since my day job has kept me rather busy these past weeks, I haven’t been as prompt as other tech writers in recognising this 20-year milestone and writing something celebratory about it. The denomination Mac OS X is however slightly older than that, as it debuted with the release of Mac OS X 1.0 Server on 16 March 1999. On 24 March 2021, Mac OS X (now simply Mac OS) turned 20, as its first major release, Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was released on 24 March 2001.
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