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According to Apple, OS 9 will not
be a boot option in 2003 Macs. While this is a reason to rejoice,
when you move forward, you always leave something behind.
There are many people who just don't like OS X and plan to stick
with OS 9 until the bitter end. In my humble opinion, this is
completely understandable. The same thing happened when Apple moved
to the PowerPC. The same thing happened when Apple went Platinum.
Things change, and people don't necessarily like it.
What will we lose when OS 9 is no longer a startup option? Well,
that brushed platinum look will be gone forever. We'll be stuck with
candy-colored widgets and buttons for the foreseeable future. While
I'm certain that some will manage to recreate the old OS through
various add-ons (witness the return
of the Happy Mac in Jaguar), for the most part people will move
on as technology herds us ever forward.
That's just the way things go. I use Classic rarely, if at all,
these days. The only app that sees regular use that is not yet ready
for OS X is Adobe FrameMaker. With any luck, the FrameMaker for
OS X timetable has been shortened to accommodate the switch to X
only.
This same hope goes for other software laggards. Notably Quark
XPress, which only managed to include a platinum interface when OS
10.1 was introduced. Will this change in direction encourage the
software sloth (Quark) to finally get with the program?
Ultimately, OS X only will produce a number of benefits for Mac
users. Developers might feel more comfortable developing OS X
native apps if they have a strong guarantee that people won't be
using OS 9 as their main OS. Because of this, programs will
become a little more stable, a little quicker, and take advantage of
the full range of OS X features (which not all Carbonized
applications can do).
For those of us who've been around the "OS upgrade" block a few
times, moving to OS X will be much like the jump from 680X0
chips to PowerPC. In the beginning, things were a bit rough. Programs
written for both architectures weren't the most stable, and some
people complained. Eventually, though, the new PowerPC apps just
became part of the landscape. People enjoyed the new OS more than
they thought they would, and eventually all that 680X0 stuff was
forgotten.
The same will happen with this "forced migration." Many people
will complain, but eventually the need to be productive will outweigh
the need to keep the flame burning. Some diehards will refuse to part
with the old OS, but the vast majority will remember the good times
and move on.
And then, when things move far enough along, a new crop of people
won't have a clue what you're talking about when you say something
about a Type 11 error. And that's good.
Stephen Van
Esch is the founder and president of
the
E-learning Foundry, an online training
resource for Mac users. Steve loves the Mac and is doubly bilingual,
since he's also fluent in Windows and French.
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