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Dave
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
 
2012-04-29, 21:24

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Originally Posted by chucker View Post
Apple's security policy has, for many years, been to provide updates for the current and previous version. Microsoft has a far lengthier support policy than that. I'm torn on this — if you're still on Leopard, either your machine is a PowerPC, and therefore six-ish (likely more) years old, or you didn't want to spend $29 for Snow Leopard, which, between Leopard and now, would have worked out to ~$6 per year.

I'm far more concerned with the millions of iOS devices that cannot be upgraded and have known security issues.
I think Snow Leopard is free now, though I believe there are some strings attached.
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