A Look at Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar"
Until the recent release of Mac OS 9.2, Apple hadn't released a x.2 build of a Macintosh operating system since System 6; however, as the clock continues to turn on Mac OS X, version 10.2 is on its way through the channel. While we all wait for Macworld New York in July for this release, many of us had expected that Mac OS X 10.x would follow much the same upgrade schedule as past Apple operating systems in that it would end at 10.5 or 10.6 and be replaced by Mac OS X v11.0 sometime in 2003. However, when the "clock strikes noon" this summer we may find that instead of a standard Apple release schedule we are finding ourselves engulfed in NeXTian fast and small updates rather than the usual storing up of bug fixes and features for the next major release. So instead of ending at 10.5, we may be staying with version 10.x much longer than we first thought. This naming scheme may in fact tell us more about Apple's plans than their press releases.
Daulton Lee
AppleInsider Staff
Kasper Jade
Prince Maclean
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