Gregg Keizer for Computer World: Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks. Well, Apple has never had Microsoft’s patience with the upgrading of obsolescent operating systems, even though upgrades are often highly dependent on hardware suitability.
- Windows XP: released 2001, support ending in April 2014.
- Snow Leopard: released 2009…
Just saying. Some would argue that maintaining XP for so long has meant that people haven’t been upgrading to more secure systems.
David Harley
Small Blue-Green World
Although Mac users are 7.66% compared with 90.74% compared with Windows users around the world, 1 out of 5 users being left vulnerable is still a staggering number of users.
The numbers above were from: http://www.netmarketshare.com
Where did you find the numbers for Mac versions specifically David? Great information and thoughts!
By: lilbambi on February 28, 2014
at 15:50
http://apple.wikia.com/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.6 I think. I don’t think I’ve seen confirmation of the end date as such.
By: David Harley on March 1, 2014
at 20:30
Thanks :D Wish netmarketshare.com would have the breakout on the various versions of OS X as well as Windows.
By: lilbambi on March 2, 2014
at 03:21