Forgot your password?  How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's
World 342  Posted by timothy from the x-is-ten-but-x10-is-older
dept. CWmike writes "Ten years ago today, Apple's first full
public version of Mac OS X went on sale worldwide to a gleeful
reception as thousands of Mac users attended special events at
their local computer shops all across the planet. What we didn't
know then was that Apple was preparing to open up its own chain
of retail outlets, nor had we heard Steve Jobs use the phrase,
'iPod.' Windows was still a competitor, and Google was still a
search engine. These were halcyon days, when being a Mac user
meant belonging to the second team, writes Jonny Evans. We're
looking at the eighth significant OS X release in the next few
months, Lion, which should offer some elements of unification
between the iOS and OS X. There's still some bugs to iron out
though, particularly the problem with ACL's (Access Control
Lists) inside the Finder. Hopefully departing ex-NeXT Mac OS
chief, Bertrand Serlet,