Tag: macosx

The Mac OS Anthology

Introduced on the stage by Steve Jobs during the May 1999 WWDC Keynote, the “Mac OS Anthology” was a collection of many Mac OS operating systems to aid…

It’s just OS X

At the World Wide Developer Conference of 2008 Apple made a small but significant move in the naming of its operating systems, removing the “Mac” prefix from Mac…

The other new features of Mac OS 9

The most touted feature of Mac OS 9 was the new Sherlock 2 but there were lots of other new features, mostly related to the development and coming…

From 25 to 75 millions users

At the WWDC 2009 Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Product Marketing, announced thatthe Macintosh has experienced an explosive growth and even more did the number of OS X…

The pace of Mac OS X releases

On the 19th of May 2004 Avie Tevanian, then Apple Chief Software Technology Officer told a technology conference that Apple would slow the pace of its operating system…

A Darwinian opening

On the 16th of March 1999 Apple announced Darwin, the open source core of Mac OS X. While the product was actually released more than a year after,…

Ten years ago: here comes Mac OS X Server

On Jan. 5, 1999, during the Macworld Expo, Apple announced Mac OS X Server as its’ new server operating system offering, which was declared to combine “the proven…

Apple’s software lineup in 2001

In 2001 Apple was still at the beginning of its slow transition from the Mac OS 9 era into the X one and also building up what would…