Quote Originally Posted by [XC] Lead Head View Post
What does it matter? It's still a nearly 12 year old operating system. Look at Apple, they stop supporting OS-X versions after about 4 years. Ubuntu only offers 5 years of support on their LTS releases. Technology moves too fast to keep supporting ancient software.

Trying to support legacy products on legacy operating systems just wastes resources that could otherwise be put towards improving drivers for the latest and greatest.
Yet each new Mac OS follows the same principle and naming scheme...

Mac OS5/6/7/8/ 9 ---> Mac OS X Version X.X.X ...
Each time since, change/add 2-3 things, tweak UI a bit, = new version...
Same as all the iProducts like the iPhone.

It's just, OS X didn't change to something different, just gained it's own versions of a version of Mac OS...
...like if MS were to release Windows 7 R2, then Win 7 R2.1, then Win 7 R2.5.1...

Windows XP fundamentally was extremely stable and scalable, Windows 98 was not. Would I love it if it was no longer being used? Yeah.
But think about it like this...

Is Ubuntu widely used in the mainstream, do most businesses use a Linux OS, not Windows? Was OSX popular with businesses, or even in households in 2001-2008?

What do many people do with their PCs, watch online videos and play flash games, which is possible on 6 year old PCs?

If you were a business, and all your office/cubible workers did were create documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints...and they could do their jobs completely fine on the PCs you bought 5 years ago, why upgrade? You wouldn't just be buying software, but hardware too...lots of $$$.