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David Pogues wrote this yesterday discussing that change is always there:

"3. Operating Systems Turn Over, Too. Every week, some unhappy reader e-mails me to complain that Apple or Microsoft or Google has updated Software Product X, and that therefore his or her four-year-old Product Y no longer works.

Agreed: It’s a bummer. But this, too, is part of the game you’ve signed up to play. Big software companies make a reasonable effort to remain backward-compatible. But after a few years of progress on Mac OS X or Windows or whatever, devoting the resources and manpower to that task, all for the sake of a dwindling number of holdouts from the late ’90s, is no longer worth it.

You can either remain frozen in time with your older computer/operating system/software combo, or you can upgrade and go with the flow."

Keep this in mind.

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Regards from brianF
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On 04/02/2012, at 12:11 PM, Bob Stern wrote:

> Macworld magazine says Apple released a revised version of the update:
> http://www.macworld.com/article/165216/2012/02/apple_revises_snow_leopard_security_update.html
> -- 
> 
> Bob Stern

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