Erica's+Assignment

** Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of GUI (graphical user interface) based operating systems that were developed by Apple Inc. for their line of Macintosh computer systems. The original version of (what they later named) “Mac OS” was first introduced in 1984. In every new version of Mac OS, Apple changes the GUI in some ways. New features are added and usually new versions guarantee better performance and stability than previous versions. I think that one day, Mac OS may catch up to Windows Vista because of the increasing number of people who are getting hooked on Mac’s easy-to-use, attractive operating system.
 * Mac OS
 * ** Mac OS X versions ** || ** Release dates **  ||
 * 10.4.0  ||  April 2005   ||
 * 10.4.1  ||  May 2005   ||
 * 10.4.2  ||  July 2005   ||
 * 10.4.3  ||  October 2005   ||
 * 10.4.4  ||  January 2006   ||
 * 10.4.5  ||  February 2006   ||
 * 10.4.6  ||  April 2006   ||
 * 10.4.7 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> ||  June 2006 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">  ||
 * 10.4.8 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> ||  September 2006 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">  ||
 * 10.4.9 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> ||  March 2007 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">  ||
 * 10.4.10 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> ||  June 2007 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">  ||
 * 10.4.11 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> ||  November 2007 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">  ||
 * ** Pros  ** || **  Cons  ** ||
 * <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> Ö   More secure (hardly ever any viruses)  || <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> Ö    Mac OS does not run as much software as other operating systems such as Windows Vista  ||
 * <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> Ö   Easier to install than other OSs (like Windows)  || <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> Ö    Expensive (Vista is cheaper and Linux is free)  ||
 * <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> Ö   Every Macintosh can start up with a bootable CD-ROM (with other OSs, like Windows, it is so much more complicated. A version of DOS is needed along with CD-ROM drivers installed on a hard disk)  || <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> Ö    Less applications can be run with Mac OS, that other OSs would be able to (only games made especially for Mac OS can run on a Macintosh)  ||