To their dismay, they found that the newer OS version was NOT compatible with their software.
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The Alert Commander for Mac is now available to download for free from the Mac App Store and supports Mac OS version 10.6.8 and higher.
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The Android device dashboard has been providing a picture of OS version distribution since before Froyo pushed aside Eclair, but now it's seeing some changes.
They even have a Mac OS version coming soon.
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Supposedly the Storm was set to launch with OS version 4.7.0.82, but due to a last-minute security glitch every last handset had to be downgraded to .65 -- a surely time-consuming task that resulted in many fewer handsets in-store and online for release.
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While a Creative Suite license gave you the ability to install the software on two systems, you had to choose at the time of purchase whether you wanted the Windows or OS X version.
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Even those using Macs will be hard pressed to justify the additional cost if they already have the OS X version of Microsoft's Office Suite on their machines, which is far superior to the Wintel version.
Every time the iPod is connected to the computer it launches the iTunes 2 software, a required download that itself requires the computer to have the very latest versions of Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS X version 10.1.
First, it requires a Mac running the Jaguar version of Apple's OS X operating system (version 10.2 or later), which is how it gets its razor-sharp graphics.
Depending on the version of OS or other conditions, users cannot use the application.
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In case you hadn't heard, Apple released the latest version of OS X recently.
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What Mac users have to do depends on what version of OS X are running.
But as yet there's no OS X-friendly version of QuarkXPress, a lynchpin application of the publishing world.
Alongside the big four, we now have Ubuntu, Firefox OS and the latest version of Tizen all elbowing each other for room.
Apple's certainly no stranger to speech recognition, but it looks like it may have enlisted a bit of outside help for the next version of OS X, otherwise known as Lion.
Firefox OS is currently in version 0.7 and has just released a desktop simulator that developers can use to preview apps written for the new platform due to be released some time in 2013.
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The move comes on top of rumors that Apple will include VMWare-style virtualization capabilities in the next version of OS X, which could enable the Mac OS to run Windows apps without requiring a third-party emulator or a reboot.
While the current version of OS X chooses to ignore this speedy potential, future releases may be a bit more likely to fully disclose its secrets -- should the IEEE ever get its act together on a final 802.11n protocol, that is.
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We may not know until a year or two or three from now when the company puts out a new version of OS X or the iPhone OS and the attackers and researchers and pen testers take their runs at it and find the game has changed.
Apple is promising a sneak peak at the next version of its OS X operating system.
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The Apple chief also detailed new features in the Mac OS 9, the next version of the Macintosh operating system.
In 2005, Apple released a version of its OS X operating system with a slick, built-in search feature dubbed Spotlight.
All we know is something bigger than a phone with physical keys is out there running an unannounced version of the OS dubbed Nova Dartfish.
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As we heard prior to the event, Home is essentially a skinned version of Android OS that unsurprisingly offers a deeper amount of integration with the social network.
The company notes that anyone who buys a PlayBook now will be able to upgrade the the next version of the OS when it ships in February at no extra cost.
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Frankly, it is hard to imagine what the new version of the OS could do that would spur consumers who have abandoned their BlackBerries for Apple and Android phones to reverse course.
But it has turned out to be an important milestone in the platform's development, and the first version of the OS that is suitable for anyone other than Apple's base of early adopters.
Sure, Bill Gates just happened to mention that we'd see a new version of the OS "Sometime in the next year or so, " but it's looking like that "or so" makes a world of difference.
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