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Reprieve for Booting New Macs With Mac OS?

Posted by pudge on from the yay-quark dept.

MatthewRothenberg writes "Apple has announced that as of January, new Macs will boot with Mac OS X only, but now MacInTouch reports that there might be a reprieve in the works for booting with Mac OS. According to one reader, a Quark representative has been calling pro publishers to ease their worries about the lack of a Mac OS X-native version of its QuarkXPress DTP program; after talking it over with Quark, Apple has agreed to move back the Mac OS X-only deadline until June." I can imagine that conversation with Jobs: "Why don't you just finish porting your freaking product already?"

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  1. Re:What good should that delay be? by andrewski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple told the Mac developers months ago that 9 was dead. They had a little ceremony where Steve put a giant-sized OS 9 box in a coffin, and then he told the developers that 9 was dead for them.

    How in the crap can Apple expect to evolve without casting off the kludgy old bird known as OS 9? Are we to expect Apple to continue to coddle slow and poorly-motivated companies forever? No. In June, when Quark still hasn't coughed up the new Quark (because frankly I doubt it'll be ready by then) they'll come back whining for another extension, and I for one hope they won't get it.

    Besides, GUI publishing tools are for pussies. OS X is friendly to TeX, what else do you need?