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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Beta to Developers
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Every new OS X version has broken software, and most software companies took the opportunity to charge for "upgrades" that "fixed" the compatibility with the latest OS X release. That definitely is something that's wrong in Apple's OS X ecosystem.
Now El Capitan initiated the same cycle again. Neither Microsoft Office 2011 nor Office 2016 work properly with El Capitan - Outlook hangs immediately when it starts synchronizing with an Exchange Server and hence has become entirely unusable on El Capitan. It's Apple's job to make sure that applications like Microsoft Office still run on the latest OS - not Microsoft's. After all, Microsoft didn't change their code base, but Apple did. Since this happens with every new version of OS X, it's rather obvious how much Apple sucks at providing backwards compatibility.
Even VMware Fusion 8 Pro - which supposedly was built for El Capitan - crashes on certain operations like resizing the vdisk of a VM. Yes, this could be VMware's fault. Or it could be caused by changes made by Apple between beta drops. The only thing that matters is the instability of Fusion on El Capitan.
The third thing that I found was that a driver for a USB Ethernet adapter that was explicitly designed for El Capitan simply didn't work with the GM candidate. (Well, let's no longer call it GM candidate, because it should be very safe to assume that this built will come pre-installed on the next Macs.)
Those three things alone render El Capitan useless for me, because I need them in my work environment.
I also went through Microsoft's Windows 10 beta program, and while none of the betas were overwhelmingly stable, the 10240 build that turned out to be the "real thing", worked extremely well and I ran into no showstopping issues with it at all. Neither were there showstopping issues with Windows 8.1, 8, 7 or even Vista before that.
I wanted to change my post because I didn't originally know there were so many posts on the tread. It at first looked like there were listen then were actually there.
I signed up for the public beta program and have been using 10.11 betas since PB 1. Initially I ran into some growing pain bugs and after I reported the major one to apple, things kept getting better.
I finally had upgraded my computer's main install of Yosemite 10.10.5 to beta 6 of 10.11 then to the GMC. I can say for me, it's been a very positive experience. Today 10.11.1 apparently got automatically downloaded for me and didn't realize it as I tried to select which update i wanted and didn't want, however I got all of them. So far I haven't noticed any show stoppers, but I think for the sake of being able to move to stable i'm going to disable pre release updates on this mac after i'm sure 10.11.1 is stable. I learned for iOS, that you have to delete the beta profile before you were able to get the final release of the public firmware, otherwise you'd keep getting betas. For os x you may need to opt out of pre release before you can get final as well. Either way I'm going to do so, just to be sure, when i'm sure I have a stable environment.
My favorite release of OS X was Snow leopard, and then maybe Tiger before that. I love legacy hardware, and software computer history gives you the appreciation of where we've3 been as a culture and where we are now. Things sure have change, some for the better some not so much.
I signed up for the public beta program and have been using 10.11 betas since PB 1. Initially I ran into some growing pain bugs and after I reported the major one to apple, things kept getting better.
I finally had upgraded my computer's main install of Yosemite 10.10.5 to beta 6 of 10.11 then to the GMC. I can say for me, it's been a very positive experience. Today 10.11.1 apparently got automatically downloaded for me and didn't realize it as I tried to select which update i wanted and didn't want, however I got all of them. So far I haven't noticed any show stoppers, but I think for the sake of being able to move to stable i'm going to disable pre release updates on this mac after i'm sure 10.11.1 is stable. I learned for iOS, that you have to delete the beta profile before you were able to get the final release of the public firmware, otherwise you'd keep getting betas. For os x you may need to opt out of pre release before you can get final as well. Either way I'm going to do so, just to be sure, when i'm sure I have a stable environment.
My favorite release of OS X was Snow leopard, and then maybe Tiger before that. I love legacy hardware, and software computer history gives you the appreciation of where we've3 been as a culture and where we are now. Things sure have change, some for the better some not so much.
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