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Funny, isn't that exactly the same thing Apple does?

by kossmoboleat 11y ago

misframer 11y ago
It's interesting that Windows is stopping at 10 as well.
AdeptusAquinas 11y ago
OSX = Apple OS Ten, Windows 10 = Microsoft OS X?
- digitalzombie 11y ago
  Well to be fair they cheated and skipped 9.
  - wvenable 11y ago
    Apple cheated too by renaming NeXTStep to Mac OS and using its version instead. :)
olympus 11y ago
The rolling/incremental release is something that Apple does, but it's not like Apple is the only company doing it. Several Linux distros follow the same release model, and other software (not just OSes) does it too - MATLAB switched to this style model years ago, and it is nice at work to have something that is never more than 6 months out of date. The only downside is that you have to really plan out deprecating features. It's easy to drop features when going from major release to major release, but in a rolling update, you need to give developers a heads up that things are about to change and give them time to fix things in their code.
- kaybe 11y ago
  We dropped MATLAB because the communal version refuses to work without internet connection (standard in the field) and we cannot afford a licence for all field laptops, where they will be used very little (but still to do things that need to be done).
  - aylons 11y ago
    So, what did you put in place? GNU Octave?
    - kaybe 11y ago
      Python, mainly. Some people still use older R scripts. It's kind of hard to make people stick to the same language when there is no real common code base (we're scientists).
digitalzombie 11y ago
OSX jump version, Apple jump from big cat names to place names now. OSX does have mini patch update. It seems like their new version is always bleeding edge, yosemite had major wifi drop issue even though they supposely fixed it with a few patches. The article made it seem like there is no more major version and just Window 10 and bunch of patches/features?
zyxley 11y ago
Pretty much. Microsoft is even stopping on Windows 10!
- seanp2k2 11y ago
  Maybe they can't do 11 because they have legacy code which looks for "11" in version strings due to Windows for Workgroups.
vardump 11y ago
Maybe next Windows versions have canine names? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Subspecies_of_Canis_lupus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Subspecies_of_Canis_lu... Windows 10 Dingo. Would be funny.
- ramgorur 11y ago
  I would like to go for dog breeds -- Windows 10 chihuahua Windows 10 chinook Windows 10 chippiparai Windows 10 chowchow
gabeio 11y ago
Apple releases new "minor" versions every year but it's still 10.x.x.x. I just see the first part as being publicity and the second number starting the real semver.

Funny, isn't that exactly the same thing Apple does?

misframer 11y ago

It's interesting that Windows is stopping at 10 as well.

AdeptusAquinas 11y ago

OSX = Apple OS Ten, Windows 10 = Microsoft OS X?

digitalzombie 11y ago
Well to be fair they cheated and skipped 9.
- wvenable 11y ago
  Apple cheated too by renaming NeXTStep to Mac OS and using its version instead. :)

olympus 11y ago

The rolling/incremental release is something that Apple does, but it's not like Apple is the only company doing it. Several Linux distros follow the same release model, and other software (not just OSes) does it too - MATLAB switched to this style model years ago, and it is nice at work to have something that is never more than 6 months out of date. The only downside is that you have to really plan out deprecating features. It's easy to drop features when going from major release to major release, but in a rolling update, you need to give developers a heads up that things are about to change and give them time to fix things in their code.

kaybe 11y ago
We dropped MATLAB because the communal version refuses to work without internet connection (standard in the field) and we cannot afford a licence for all field laptops, where they will be used very little (but still to do things that need to be done).
- aylons 11y ago
  So, what did you put in place? GNU Octave?
  - kaybe 11y ago
    Python, mainly. Some people still use older R scripts. It's kind of hard to make people stick to the same language when there is no real common code base (we're scientists).

digitalzombie 11y ago

OSX jump version, Apple jump from big cat names to place names now. OSX does have mini patch update. It seems like their new version is always bleeding edge, yosemite had major wifi drop issue even though they supposely fixed it with a few patches. The article made it seem like there is no more major version and just Window 10 and bunch of patches/features?

zyxley 11y ago

Pretty much. Microsoft is even stopping on Windows 10!

seanp2k2 11y ago
Maybe they can't do 11 because they have legacy code which looks for "11" in version strings due to Windows for Workgroups.

vardump 11y ago

Maybe next Windows versions have canine names? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Subspecies_of_Canis_lupus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Subspecies_of_Canis_lu... Windows 10 Dingo. Would be funny.

ramgorur 11y ago
I would like to go for dog breeds -- Windows 10 chihuahua Windows 10 chinook Windows 10 chippiparai Windows 10 chowchow

gabeio 11y ago

Apple releases new "minor" versions every year but it's still 10.x.x.x. I just see the first part as being publicity and the second number starting the real semver.