>"OS X tends to break older apps" >[citation needed] Apps that dig deep into the OS are always at risk, VMWare Fusion is probably the best example of this. At

>"OS X tends to break older apps" >[citation needed] Apps that dig deep into the OS are always at risk, VMWare Fusion is probably the best example of this. At my previous job there were issues with versions of Adobe CS (3 or 4, I can't really remember) and Snow Leopard. Apple removed Rosetta from Lion, no PowerPC apps will run on anything after that. Apple has a horrible backwards compatibility track record, Microsoft is significantly better in this respect.