Looking back at Mac OS X
Apple’s Mac OS X is a Unix-based (BSD to be precise) graphical operating system, built on technologies developed at NeXT between the second half of the 1980s and Apple’s purchase of the company in late 1996. Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard” first got it’s support to run on Intel hardware, since then Apple’s marketshare jumped to what is seen today (around 5.12%).
A list of all Mac OS X versions and their subsequent release dates:
10.0 Cheetah — March 24, 2001;
10.1 Puma — September 25, 2001;
10.2 Jaguar — August 24, 2002;
10.3 Panther — October 24, 2003;
10.4 Tiger — April 29, 2005;
10.4 Intel Tiger — January 10, 2006;
10.5 Leopard — October 26, 2007;
10.6 Snow Leopard — August 28, 2009.
The current version of Snow Leopard is 10.6.2 and release of 10.6.3 is evident.
Microsoft’s History
From those modest beginnings, that company went on to help give birth to an entire industry, change the way we live and work, and become one of the largest software companies on the planet, creating countless millionaires — and several billionaires — along the way.
Over the Last few years Microsoft built Windows taking it journey from v3.1 to current version: Windows 7, the most successful windows ever.
And Today, Microsoft owns products for almost all Business, consumers, industries needs.
Further Reading: An opinionated look back at the good, the bad and the ugly of Microsoft’s 35-year history[Computer world]
P.S. I always wonder why only droup-outs turn-out to be so successful?
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