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Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday

Posted by pudge on from the and-i-forgot-a-present dept.

hotsauce writes "Mac OS X is one year old, and the Washington Post has a good summary. What do people think now that we're at the promised '12 o'clock'? What's in the year ahead?" I dunno what's in the year ahead, but as for today, I got a new TiBook and had a kernel panic while watching the This Is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD.

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  1. Extension Hell by fm6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Apple also has users worried about OS X's reliance on file-name extensions (.doc, .rtf, .gif and so on) to identify file types.
    Now that's just plain sad. I've never been a big fan of the Mac, but there's no denything that the way MacOS avoids using extensions to identify files is a Good Idea. The whole concept of extensions is out of date, and leads to no end of problems. I can't believe Apple spent all that time working on OS X and managed to overlook such a basic feature.