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And my 5 year old Powerbook rages on as well.

It's been a painful 5 years but Mac OS-X rocks and that's all that matters.

Three cheers for protected memory!

Happy Bithday OS X! 5 years, no viruses. A healthy child with room to grow.

New version of Appleworks!!

I guess Apple finally realized Pages and iWorks wasn't going to work.

I have been using Appleworks for years, it's really fast, feature rich and inexpensive.

Plus it opens the occassional Excell or Word file that happens to foul the taste of my M$ FREE Mac.

Other Mac users, well they are sellouts, giving M$ money and getting locked into OfficeMac. I pity them.

Of couse those running XP on their Mactels should be tarred and feathere and ran out of our cult.

No pain here. Full-time Mac OS X user since September 15, 2000 (beta days).

VISTA is for Losers,

WTF are you typing about - this is a press release from 2001 to mark Mac OS X's official release.

iWork is the future. AppleWorks is dead.

OSX has come so far in 5 years. 10.0 was dog slow and feature empty. Comparing it to Panther or Tiger you realise just how much Apple have really achieved. Macs now run the best OS on the market. Nobody can seriously say otherwise.

Just take a moment to think about OS9. Would you go back? Not bloody likely.

This makes OS X 6 years (or is it 60?) younger than Doze 9598XPSP3.

I was an early adopter for OS X. Loved it since day one. Ok, it crawled in the beginning, but the fact that it NEVER crashed meant I no longer made marks on my walls from throwing pencils out of frustration. It was totally worth it.

Re: AppleWorks:

I love Appleworks; I have been using it since Clarisworks3. And now use Appleworks 6 which is what? four years old?

I use every function, including Draw and Paint. It opens every kind of file and you can save documents in every format you are likely to require.

The only gripe I have is that you cannot stengthen the cell borders in a spreadsheet unless you draw them.

And of course OSX rules ok!

Comming soon: CD-burning!

"It's been a painful 5 years but Mac OS-X rocks and that's all that matters."

Why has it been painful? Have you been using w Wintel box at work for the last 5 years?

I've finally reached the point where OSX seems almost normal, and OS9 feels a little odd. Not from lack of trying; I started with a clean computer and a copy of 10.0 five years ago, today. (I still have never used the Command-N for a new window, or the column view, though. And I manually turn off the sidebar in almost every window.) Put the trash back where it belongs, and I guess I can live with it.

OSX DOES crash a bit less than 9, though it's much harder to diagnose when it does. So I guess when you add in the nearly universal Command-H to hide applications, we're actually ahead.

The comment by 'VISTA is for Losers' is by MacDude, can't you tell by the style..and the innanity of it.

Hey, AppleWorks is still a great application, even after years of neglect.

It's a shame that Apple creates applications with great potential and then leaves them to wither on the vine: AppleWorks, MacPaint/MacWrite, Claris Organizer, Claris Emailer, Cyberdog, OpenDoc, iCal... to name a few and the list could go on.

I've continued using it since version 2 or 3 and it does what I need it to do without the bloat and without my money spinning down the drain of the Quagmire of Redmond.

Yes, AppleWorks could stand to have it's graphics engine updated and I WISH that Apple would make it fully compliant with OS X standards.

If they'd do that, AppleWorks could again be a winner.

BTW: Happy B'Day Mac OS X!. Been using you since the Public Beta and still in love!

I remember those days.

OS X really sucked back then, though.

10.3 got it right.

No more system 9 extension conflicts! whew.

And of course, no virus, malware, spyware problems.

Ahhhhhh-hah-hah-hah-hah-hahaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!

You stupid TOOL, 'MacDude'! Or 'Vista is for losers'! Or whatever the hell you're calling yourself these days.

What a moron you truly are!!!!!

The release is indeed from 2001. You stupid, bulbous, assclown.

To all PC users who happen to stop by here: Note that 'MacDude' (or 'Paul', or 'Mary', or 'Vista', or 'Shitstain', or 'The Worst Speller in Exisence') is really this idiot inbred single-for-life virgin bachelor who validates his meager existence by posting here with 7 different personalities.

He should really be called 'MacSybil'.

"You stupid TOOL, 'MacDude'! Or 'Vista is for losers'! Or whatever the hell you're calling yourself these days.

What a moron you truly are!!!!!

The release is indeed from 2001. You stupid, bulbous, assclown." [/quote}

That's a bit of a harsh comment You IDIOT!!!

I must admit that when I read the 'happy 5th birthday' heading and then the opening line "Apple® today announced that beginning this Saturday, March 24, customers can buy Mac® OS X in retail stores around the world" even I thought "Feck me, Jobs is announcing Apple are releasing OSX for PCs!"

Although it's a happy birthday for OSX, I feel disapointed for the PC hoards out there who are missing out on this...

Sorry, I tried to put the first bit in quotes, but my html's gone screwy...

"You stupid TOOL, 'MacDude'! Or 'Vista is for losers'! Or whatever the hell you're calling yourself these days.

What a moron you truly are!!!!!

The release is indeed from 2001. You stupid, bulbous, assclown."

That's better.

Yes, skipping through the first couple of paras I thought they were annoncing OSX for PCs...

So..... Your Macdude sign in name got locked out of MDN and now you're posting from a friends computer?

Sorry, I tried to put the first bit in quotes, but my html's gone screwy...

...ish

Bartsimpsonhead -- Don't be an Uber-Tool like MacDude.

You jackass!

"Statement Of Changes In Beneficial Ownership" [Steve Jobs files SEC Form 4, sells 4.57 million shares of Apple Common Stock on 3/19] Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000118143106019230/xslF345X02/rrd111744.xml

I got my first taste of OS X on the Public Beta on a 400MHz G3 Blueberry iMac. It was beautiful, but slow and buggy-- kind of like Windows XP with a better interface.
10.0 sucked, lacked drivers, but get the train moving.
10.0.1 is when it finally got traction. Still slow, but better.
10.1 Mo Betta, but still a sluggard.
10.2 The child of promise starts to fulfill it's promise.
10.3 Best and biggest jump in features/performance. OS X comes of age.
10.4 Tweaks and such. I have it, but really don't see the $129.

Magic Word POWER

I missed out on the 10.x bandwagon -- had a free copy of the 10.1 upgrade but I hadn't taken the plunge into the X world yet. I think it was 10.2 when I made the jump, could've been 10.3. That was back on my old clamshell iBook -- both my current iBook and my iMac came with 10.4 Tiger (the iMac even eliminated Classic because it's an Intel), and I've never looked back...

Can't believe it's been five years already!!

I knew you and programmed in you when you were called Rhapsody, SEVEN years ago. I ran you on my windows PC then (Yeah these Johnny-come-latelys with the Dell...So what?) And you flashed the B&W;apple logo on my screen. You had your color pinwheel then just like now. You could be programmed in a Green Box, Blue Box, or Yellow Box. When Mr. Jobs put cat fur on ya I brought ya home in a QS G4.

Happy B-Day to the best consumer grade OS ever!!!

You can't win, ever!!

Mac OS is insecure and your all brainwashed idiots.

http://secunia.com/product/96/

<i>"The Secunia database currently contains 0 Secunia advisories marked as "Unpatched", which affects Apple Macintosh OS X."

Translation: ALL SECUNIA ADVISORIES ARE PATCHED!

MacDude

May I bring you attention to this for comparison's sake.

Seems like OSX is quite healthy to me.

I'm still on 10.3.9 - but only because Freehand sucks with 10.4.x and spotlight is a joke. C4D is better on 10.4 tho...

I think that one of the best (smartest) things that Apple did with Mac OS X was to embrace the open source community. All of a sudden, the Macintosh has a whole bunch of cool new software to use that's cheap and easy to use.

Not only did this get the Unix developers excited about the Macintosh (Apple quickly became the biggest distributor of Unix in the world), it also showed them a better user interface for their software (My, so I don't have to be a rocket scientist to install and operate this software?). This was a win-win situation for Apple (and us).