Mac OS 10.2.3!

[Stridder44]

Mac OS 10.2.3 is supposed to come out around december/January and will include intense iChat updates and improvments (will be iChat 1.1) along with other minor system improvments. It's also said that a possible ICQ integration will be included as well...

[wtmcgee]

i've also heard that this will be the release that will kill the ability to boot into os 9. i'm not sure if that's true or doable... just what ive read in a lot of places.

[Jason]

hmm im not gonna like that if that happens

[Stridder44]

Really!? Ew...I don't think a whole lot of people would like that if that were to happen ( I dout that they would do something like this this soon...but you never know). Apple, I'm sure, would get alot of complaints. People still use OS 9 to a degree for various reasons.

[wtmcgee]

keep in mind this is only what ive read in a few forums... this is nowhwere close to a fact - just rumors ive read.

[edX]

i can't imagine system software that would keep your mac from booting up in os 9. maybe keep you from booting up classic, but not os 9. keep in mind that os 9 and classic are not exactly the same.

still , that would be a bad move as far i'm concerned. and frankly, i don't understand why apple would have to remove the ability to use classic at any point in the foreseable future. there are still too many mac users who haven't switched to osx and taking away classic would only make many of them put the move off further.

[wtmcgee]

they'll never get rid of classic IMO.... i think that's one of the best things about OSX - the compatibility between the old and the new.

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by wtmcgee
i've also heard that this will be the release that will kill the ability to boot into os 9. i'm not sure if that's true or doable... just what ive read in a lot of places.

Anyone who has ever booted into MacOS 9 on a computer that has MacOS X installed knows that it is impossible for MacOS X to prevent booting into MacOS 9. Speculation to the contrary is just plain silly.