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> Yet within three months of Jaguar coming out, every second > bit of new OS X software I saw *demanded* it. I probably have a > distinctly inaccurate impression of things here, but... (trails off > waving hands, hoping for a Mac user to continue at this point) Microsoft doesn't need to use the OS that way, they have Office. Which is even more insidious. If you don't upgrade, you can't reliably read and edit new files. If you do, you're spreading the virus because now all your coworkers and correspondants start having to upgrade unless you're careful to always save in RTF (and now they seem to be embedding COM objects in RTF to block that avenue of escape). But... yeh, I wish Apple would implement service packs to at least upgrade the frameworks (shared libraries on amphetamines) so they were API-compatible. On the other hand I'm glad they've avoided the temptation to do what Microsoft has been doing to keep compatible and having software vendors ship upgraded DLLs with their products.
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