#DOWNGRADE MAC OS TO PREVIOUS VERSION UPDATE#
I haven't fully tested Mavericks yet, because I've purposefully been holding out until an update comes out which hopefully fixes some stuff. Well, we're running Macs in a Windows/AD environment, so it's always been a bit of a square-peg-in-a-round-hole situation. about whether or not its suitable for a given environment. But I guess it all depends on the products you use, or don't use, etc. And Microsoft Lync, which we're in the process of moving to from OCS, has a few issues with Mavericks (see the thread here on the forum about that) Outside of this, only recently Cisco released a compatible An圜onnect VPN Mac client, and again, that needs to be thoroughly tested, etc. We can't release Macs without A/V, for as much as I dislike anti-virus products, so there's that. Some back end stuff needs to be upgraded to support this new version, so that kind of sucks, because it means a lengthy change review process before we can move forward with it. Our A/V product still isn't fully compatible with Mavs yet, although a new version is being tested by our security division. I can only speak for ourselves, but in our case, while we don't find Mavericks "unsuitable" there is one show stopper currently and a few smaller issues we're waiting on fixes for. At least then we have a time buffer before we're forced to start buying the new model. Our tactic the last couple of years has been to do just what you stated - try to anticipate these moves and tell our vendors to stock up on existing hardware prior to any new announcements, assuming we can make such a prediction, but Apple's product events are becoming a bit more predictable, so that's not so hard. Then its a pain because there is extremely little time to vet and prepare for inclusion of the new OS.
Generally speaking this isn't too big a deal, except in cases lille this when a new OS releases simultaneously with new hardware. Going backwards even one point release or, heck even to a standard release of that same build version, has become a non option. Now, the only thing that will boot any Mac is the OS and build it ships with and higher. Used to be that there was a reasonable expectation that a retail copy of OS X on DVD (remember those? :) ) would boot most recent hardware. Part of that is because of additions to OS X that make it far easier for Apple to justify this practice, such as Recovery HD and Internet Recovery options. But yeah, for a number of years now its been the way it currently is.
#DOWNGRADE MAC OS TO PREVIOUS VERSION FULL VERSION#
If not a full version back then at least with the previous point release. Given I go back to pre OS X days managing Macs, I can recall a time in the early OS X days when new hardware often worked with the previous version of OS X. I guess it depends on what you mean by "for a while now" If one is a recent addition to the world of managing Apple's devices, then its true that its been this way, possibly from the beginning based on that perspective.
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