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Wave-Themed OS X Banner Goes Up at Moscone West for WWDC 2013

prnoct90 said:
You can call it whatever you want. Every employee I've ever talked to at my local Apple Store has pronounced it "O.S.Ex."
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They are doing it wrong. If you listen to Apple executives and Apple ads, it's always Oh Es Ten.

Of course, I usually call it Oh Es Ex myself, and so has most of Apple's customers.

I'm looking forward to OS 11, where this can finally be put behind us.
 
CyBeRino said:
Indeed, the full name and version of Windows 7 is Windows NT 6.1, incidentally this is also the version number for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Of course microsoft markets these as "Windows 7" and "Windows Server 2008 R2". They're the same thing (Windows NT 6.1), just with different feature sets. Just as "OS X Mountain Lion" and "OS X Server Mountain Lion" are the same thing (Mac OS X 10.8), just with different feature sets.

One could argue that apps that break if that string changes are themselves broken and need to be fixed.
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It depends how the string was defined. The Windows environment variable "OS" is meant to allow a script to be written to run on both Windows_NT based systems and DOS/Win9x systems - since their capabilities and CMD (shell) processors were different.

Changing the "OS" environment variable to "Windows7" would cause those scripts to fail, and would be a bug in the OS.

The actual Windows OS id is in the registry (see attachment). There are also system APIs (such as GetVersionEx) to get the version info.

The general point that you make is valid - software shouldn't depend on marketing strings, but instead should use system APIs and proper practices to check versions.

mrxak said:
They are doing it wrong. If you listen to Apple executives and Apple ads, it's always Oh Es Ten.

Of course, I usually call it Oh Es Ex myself, and so has most of Apple's customers.

I'm looking forward to OS 11, where this can finally be put behind us.
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Unless they call it OS XI.

...and I've seen a video posted here that's a compilation of Jobs accidentally saying "Oh Es Ex" on various occasions. ;)
 

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hamis92 said:
In that case, would you mind enlightening us?
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The poster said that what works on a 4" screen doesn't work on a 30" screen and vice versa. It's simply not (completely true). Loads of things work great on both screen sizes.
 
AidenShaw said:
Unless they call it OS XI.

...and I've seen a video posted here that's a compilation of Jobs accidentally saying "Oh Es Ex" on various occasions. ;)
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Me too, I'm sure I've heard him a couple of times or so.

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powers74 said:
I think the idea is that you're about to get hit with a giant wave of awesome. On a related note, anyone notice that MacPro pattern behind the "7" on the other banner?
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I did.
 
IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!! YAY! Sea Creatures!!!

They will finally introduce MacOS 10.9 (beta, internal use only) "BENNY THE WALRUS"

The MacOS X will finally find names form the sea!

INTRODUCING MACOS 10.9 WALLYRUS!!

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Here are some fantastic promo shots of the newly elected creature to represent the worlds most advanced cyberfantastic Operating System.

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and naturally what would an Apple Expo be without some dry humour!
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ok I'll prepare my self mentally to be hugely disappointed once again!!
...because having Siri on the iPhone has shown to be "such" a "success"...:rolleyes:

Actually I'll just prepare my tag and shorts for the event at E3, I always come home with tons of cool stuff after the show. Unlike Apple, I get nothing... but grief.
 
Here's my take

Well, the more I think about it this is probably a banner for Logic Pro X. I remember a rumor last year leading to an unofficial Apple response saying they were hard at work on the next version of Logic Pro.

However, I already made my mockup for OS X. So, here tis.

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Obama is having a press conference on monday as well as E3, it's gonna be a news heavy day and everyone will be vying for attention, it's gon' be a cluster****.

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benthere16 said:
Well, the more I think about it this is probably a banner for Logic Pro X. I remember a rumor last year leading to an unofficial Apple response saying they were hard at work on the next version of Logic Pro.

However, I already made my mockup for OS X. So, here tis.

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Bro, your pic ain't loadin'.
 
Maybe Greek gods?

Maybe it cloud be for the greek god Poseidon? That cloud be some cool names :)

OS X Poseidon
OS X Zeus
OS X Apollo
OS X Ares
OS X Hera

And so on :)
 
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Larry-K said:
I always figured it was only O, S, Ten, if you spoke Roman.
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Larry you are right, it IS how you should say it. Steve Jobs would be proud ;)

As for the other guy...

Funny, I've bene an Apple employee for years now. At every core training, it's told to the newbies... it's NOT OS EX but MAC OS TEN.

So... I'm sorry you had to meet the dumb bunch but they are saying it wrong and they should go back to Core Training to get a refresh...
 
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