The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks
away
by MacDailyNews
[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]"Apple is working its way toward releasing
OS X Mountain Lion [sic Mavericks] 10.9.5, very likely the last
non-security update for the 10-month old operating system," Gregg Keizer
reports for Computerworld.
"While Apple hasn't said -- it never does -- when it will release
Mavericks 10.9.5, it's almost certain to be the last update that
includes non-security bug fixes, the kind of performance and reliability
improvements that Mac owners hunger for, or changes to existing features
in the OS," Keizer reports. "Both Lion (OS X 10.7) and Mountain Lion
(10.8) reached x.x.5 and no further, for instance... [It's] likely that
Apple will deliver Mavericks 10.9.5 some time in September."
"More important than the delivery date for the last non-security
Mavericks refresh is the fact that the same day will also mark the end
of security patches for 2011's Lion, or OS X 10.7," Keizer reports.
"Halting patches for OS X Lion customers would, of course, be painful --
and potentially risky -- for them, but Apple probably won't blink an
eye. As of July, Lion accounted for just 10% of all versions of OS X in
use, according to metrics company Net Applications. By the end of
September, Lion's user share will be about 8%, assuming it continues to
drop at the rate it has over the last six months. That will be less than
half of Snow Leopard's share when Apple pulled its plug last year.
--
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
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