{"id":1786,"date":"2003-09-28T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/28\/excluding-os-x\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:29:24","slug":"excluding-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/28\/excluding-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Excluding OS X?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13230,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com\\\/catalog\\\/display.asp?site=10985&amp;subid=22&amp;pg=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/casoneroutegold-prod-bggfgca0dkaag8a8.b01.azurefd.net\\\/catalog\\\/display.asp?site=10985&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13231,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com\\\/hardware\\\/mouseandkeyboard\\\/default.mspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110418002802\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com:80\\\/hardware\\\/mouseandkeyboard\\\/default.mspx&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:29:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 20:07:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 20:07:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in the midst of getting my new machine all configured the way I like it, installing software, drivers, etc. I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/catalog\/display.asp?site=10985&amp;subid=22&amp;pg=1\" title=\"Microsoft Office Keyboard\">Microsoft Office Keyboard<\/a> (that&#8217;s discontinued), so I hit Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/hardware\/mouseandkeyboard\/default.mspx\" title=\"Microsoft Mice and Keyboards\">keyboard pages<\/a> to download the software. As I was working my way through the download process (verify system requirements, choose your product, choose your OS, choose your language, and download), I was presented with these choices when choosing my operating system:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/msexcludingosx.jpg\" title=\"Mac OS 10.1 - 10.2.x (excluding OS X)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mac OS 10.1 - 10.2.x (excluding OS X)\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/msexcludingosx-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anybody want to take a stab at explaining to me just what operating system Microsoft thinks I&#8217;m running on my Mac that has a version number equal to or greater than 10.0, and yet <em>excludes<\/em> OS X?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody want to take a stab at explaining to me just what operating system Microsoft thinks I&#8217;m running on my Mac that has a version number equal to or greater than 10.0, and yet excludes OS X?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}