OS X is 5 years young

Unfortunate Apple doesn't devote more time to fix the Fax capabilities such as the address book auto complete. Small businesses are trying for the paperless office. Sending and receiving faxes on the computer without the need for 3rd pary sofware might help in sales to that market.

The misplaced 'h' has been found!

Please correct the spelling of my name.

"(remember when the Apple menu was in the middle of the menu bar?)"

"(if i remember correctly, that wasn't the apple menu in the middle of the menu bar. it was just a decorative apple. it looked cool, but it didn't do anything.

man, i remember how strange and different the Public Beta was when i installed; i remember getting home really late at night, seeing it in my mail, and reading every little bit of the package/booklet while it installed.)"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Apple was centered in the menu bar to sort of act as the "digital sun," i.e. it was the source that casts the shadows on windows, buttons, etc. (notice how OS X's drop shadows are centered).

More discussion on the digital sun:
http://www.urbanhonking.com/universe/archives/2006/02/computers_are_i_1.html

If i'm not mistaken, the OS X beta also didn't allow you to drop files on the desktop. People liked the simplicity of the new OS, but they still wanted the ability to clutter up their desktop with oodles of haphazardly dropped files!

The Apple Menu, in fact, did not exist back then. There was lots of discussion about it, but they did bring it back.

I switched to OS X the day the Public Beta arrived. I occasionally booted back into Mac OS 9, but I was even doing all my web server software development on the Public Beta. I almost miss those days... and my Pismo. {sniff}

Even in the dark days of the 90s, when everyone was wondering when Apple would collapse, I was never really worried. It wasn't until I saw the beta of OSX that I began to think maybe it was over.

"They're gonna replace my OS with THAT!?"

they came a LONG way in a short time. Despite a few nagging issues I still have, I couldn't live without OSX.

Happy Birthday to the best and most advanced OS in the world!

"(remember when the Apple menu was in the middle of the menu bar?)"

if i remember correctly, that wasn't the apple menu in the middle of the menu bar. it was just a decorative apple. it looked cool, but it didn't do anything.

man, i remember how strange and different the Public Beta was when i installed; i remember getting home really late at night, seeing it in my mail, and reading every little bit of the package/booklet while it installed.

Time to look back and look ahead. Some new rumors came out about Leopard today, one being that it would fully support Intel's virtualization and be able to run OS X and XP (or Linux) concurrently, allowing you to switch between them with, in effect, a software KVM.

Also read some MSFT insiders speculating about Leopard having a full DBFS (database file system).

About a year or so ago, while reformatting and reinstalling OS X on my Pismo PowerBook, I decided to have some fun and install the Public Beta on it for a while.

Well, it wasn't fun, but it was good for some late-2000 nostalgia.

Oh, and the Apple in the center of the menubar was never a menu. It was purely decorative. Which reminds me -- the OS X Apple Menu is WAY more useful than OS 9's ever was. Anybody still crying for the OS 9 menu, or installing things like Fruit Menu needs a good slap.