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I'm reminded of Mac OS X 10.0 being so sub-par that Apple decided to make 10.1 free, to compensate. This turned out to be an advantage for developers as well,

I'm reminded of Mac OS X 10.0 being so sub-par that Apple decided to make 10.1 free, to compensate. This turned out to be an advantage for developers as well, as they could simply forget 10.0 existed and require 10.1, fixing some problems. Vista certainly qualifies as a sub-par OS worthy of a free upgrade. With Microsoft having lots of money, and a need for really good P.R. right now, they would be smart to mail off a Windows 7 box to all of their Vista buyers. Developers and OEMs could then forget that Vista ever existed, and apps could move forward to require Windows 7 (or XP) as a baseline.

quantumhobbit 18y ago
Didn't they also ship all Macs with OS 9 and an optional OS 10 disc until 10.2 or something like that? What annoyed most people was that they couldn't get XP as easily anymore. Edit: OS 9 was the default until the release of OS 10.1.2. Thank you Wikipedia.
lallysingh 18y ago
AFAIK they didn't push 10.0 as being truly production ready, but they shipped it on macs so that developers would take it seriously. Hence why it was shipped with the macs, but not the default booting OS for some time.