5 Years

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Mac OS X just turned 5 yesterday, March 24th, 2006! Cheetah was launched on March 24th, 2001.

Just thought I'd bring it up.

 

[kretzy]

Happy iBirthday OS X!!!

And here's to many more!

 

[thequicksilver]

John Siracusa, probably the web's most respected expert on OS X, has written a very nice retrospective piece on this.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/osx-fiveyears.ars

His opening reminds us all how "Vista-esque" the search for Apple's next gen OS really was…

Mac OS X 10.0 was released five years ago today, on March 24th, 2001. To me, it felt like the end of a long road rather than a beginning. At that point, I'd already written over 100,000 words about Apple's new OS for Ars Technica, starting with the second developer release and culminating in the public beta several months before 10.0. But the road that led to Mac OS X extends much farther into past—years, in fact.

(Incidentally, I'd love to know how much some of the leading PC writers have written to date about Longhorn/Vista…)