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Re:Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, ... by evan_ on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:12AM (#5626650)
You don't think they'll do OS X 10.10?
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Re:Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, ... by Samuel_Michon on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:28AM (#5626781)
Em, no. Of all the possibilities, I’d say that is one of the least likely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Sequence-ba...

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Re:Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, ... by evan_ on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:42AM (#5626866)
Are you sure you read that correctly? I quote:

> In this system, the third digit (instead of the second digit) denotes a minor release, and a fourth digit (instead of the third digit) denotes bug-fix/revision releases. Because the first digit is always 10, and because the subsequent digits are not decimals, but incremental values, it is likely that a hypothetical 11th major version of OSX, should it exist, would be labeled "10.10" rather than "11.0".

They did 10.4.10 and 10.4.11 so I'd say its within the realm of possibility.

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Re:Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, ... by Samuel_Michon on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:48AM (#5626897)
All very good points. I think it would look silly, but sure, it’s possible. However, I think Apple would only choose it if the version after 10.9 didn’t look all too different from 10.9. If they did some kind of UI overhaul, it would be a good time to jump to a new major version – maybe even ‘OS XI’ or ‘OS 11’.
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