Mac OS X 10.4.11 serial key or number

Trend Micro, Inc .

July 2010

Trend Micro™ Security (for Mac) Server

Version 1.5 Service Pack 2

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Contents

1. About Trend Micro Security

2. Key Features and Benefits

3. Document Set

4. System Requirements

5. Installation

6. Post-installation Configuration

7. Known Issues

8. Release History

9. Contact Information

10. About Trend Micro

11. License Agreement

1. About Trend Micro Security for Mac

Trend Micro Security for Mac provides the latest endpoint protection against security risks, blended threats, and platform independent Web-based attacks. Trend Micro Security for Mac integrates with OfficeScan, simplifying the management of Macintosh desktops, laptops, and servers though the same Web console that manages Windows-based clients and servers.

1.1. Overview of This Release

This service pack introduces the following new features and enhancements:

• IPFW, the built-in firewall in Mac OS X server, can now co-exist with the Trend Micro Security for Mac client.
  
  
• The client�s scan performance was improved to speed up copying of remote files and launching applications on the Mac.
  
  
• With the adoption of ActiveMQ™ 5.3, Trend Micro Security for Mac server can now support up to 2000 clients.
  
  
• The Java™ Quick Starter service will now be stopped automatically before installation of the Trend Micro Security for Mac server, relieving administrators of the task of stopping the service themselves.
  
  

1.2. Who Should Install This Release

Install this service pack if:

• You have installed Trend Micro Security 1.5 and want to upgrade.
  
  
• You are installing Trend Micro Security for the first time.

For details, see the Installation section below.

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2. Key Features and Benefits

Trend Micro Security provides the following features and benefits:

Security Risk Protection

Trend Micro Security protects computers from security risks by scanning files and then performing a specific action on each security risk detected. An overwhelming number of security risks detected over a short period of time signals an outbreak. Trend Micro Security notifies you of any outbreak so you can take immediate action, such as cleaning infected computers and isolating them until they are completely risk-free.

Web Reputation

Web reputation technology proactively protects client computers within or outside the corporate network from malicious and potentially dangerous Web sites. Web reputation breaks the infection chain and prevents downloading of malicious code.

Centralized Management

A Web-based management console gives administrators transparent access to all clients on the network. The Web console coordinates automatic deployment of security policies, pattern files, and software updates on every client. Administrators can perform remote administration and configure settings for clients or groups.

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3. Document Set

The document set for the Trend Micro Security server includes:

• Administrator's Guide: A PDF document that discusses Trend Micro Security server and client installation, getting started information, and server and client management.
  
  
• Help: HTML files compiled in WebHelp format that provide "how to's", usage advice, and field-specific information. The Help is accessible from the Trend Micro Security server and client consoles.
  
  
• Installation and Configuration Worksheet: A PDF document that provides a checklist of items to guide the administrator in setting up and configuring Trend Micro Security.
  
  
• Readme file: Contains a list of known issues and basic installation steps. It may also contain late-breaking product information not found in the online or printed documentation.

Download the latest versions of the PDF documents and readme at http://www.trendmicro.com/download/.

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4. System Requirements

    Trend Micro Security server

   Trend Micro Security client

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5. Installation

Upgrading the Trend Micro Security Server

If you have installed Trend Micro Security 1.5, upgrade the Trend Micro Security server to this service pack by opening the Plug-in Manager console, and then clicking Download in the Trend Micro Security (for Mac) section. The build number that displays in the console should be 1.5.5xxx.

Upgrade the clients after upgrading the server. For server and client upgrade instructions, refer to Chapter 8 of the Administrator's Guide.

Performing a Fresh Installation of the Trend Micro Security Server

If this is your first time to install Trend Micro Security, perform the following steps:

Note: This service pack does not require installing Trend Micro Security 1.5 separately. The installation package installs both version 1.5 and this service pack.

Before installing Trend Micro Security server, check the Plug-in Manager update source by navigating to Updates > Server > Update Source on the OfficeScan Web console. The update source can be any of the following:

ActiveUpdate Server

The Trend Micro ActiveUpdate server is the default update source for OfficeScan. Internet connection is required to connect to this server. If the server computer connects to the Internet through a proxy server, ensure that Internet connection can be established using the proxy settings.

Other Update Source

If you have specified multiple update sources:

• Ensure the server computer can connect to the first update source on the list. If the server computer cannot connect to the first update source, it does not attempt to connect to the other update sources.
  
  
• Check if the first update source contains the latest version of the Plug-in Manager component list (OSCE_AOS_COMP_LIST.xml) and the Trend Micro Security installation package.

For assistance in setting up an update source, contact your support provider.

Intranet Location Containing a Copy of the Current File

If the update source is an intranet location:

• Check if there is functional connection between the server computer and the update source.
  
  
• Check if the update source contains the latest version of the Plug-in Manager component list (OSCE_AOS_COMP_LIST.xml) and the Trend Micro Security installation package.

For assistance in setting up the intranet source, contact your support provider.

To install the Trend Micro Security server:

1. Open the OfficeScan Web console and click Plug-in Manager on the main menu.
   
   
2. Go to the Trend Micro Security (for Mac) section and click Download. Plug-in Manager downloads the package to <OfficeScan Server installation folder>\PCCSRV\Download\Product. <OfficeScan Server Installation folder> is typically C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\OfficeScan.
   
   
3. Monitor the download progress. You can navigate away from the screen during the download.
   
   
4. If you encounter problems downloading the package, check the server update logs on the OfficeScan Web console. On the main menu, click Logs > Server Update Logs.
   
   
5. After Plug-in Manager downloads the package, a new screen with the following options displays: Install Now or Install Later.
   
   
   1. If you click Install Now, agree to the license agreement and then check the installation progress.
      
      
   2. If you click Install Later:
      
      
      • Open the OfficeScan Web console and click Plug-in Manager on the main menu.
        
        
      • Go to the Trend Micro Security (for Mac) section and click Install.
        
        
      • Agree to the license agreement and then check the installation progress.

After the installation, the Trend Micro Security version displays.

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6. Post-installation Configuration

For a list of recommended post-installation tasks, including steps to install the Trend Micro Security client, refer to the Administrator's Guide or Help .

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7. Known Issues

The following are the known issues in this release:

7.1. Trend Micro Security Server

1. When the server is installed on a Windows Server 2008 computer, the following Windows message displays:

" A program can't display a message on your desktop."

This message can be ignored. The server will be installed successfully.

1. A client that has been uninstalled from a Macintosh computer is not automatically unregistered from the server. On the Web console's client tree, the client's status is "offline".

To unregister the client from the server:

1. On the Web console, click Client Management and select the client that was uninstalled.
2. Click Manage Client Tree > Remove Group/Client.

1. The server does not automatically remove inactive clients from the client tree.

An inactive client has been continuously offline for an extended period of time and may have already been uninstalled from the Macintosh computer. To remove an inactive client, see the unregistration steps in known issue 7.1.2.

7.2. Trend Micro Security Client

1. Trend Micro Security client does not support the ipfw (ipfirewall) command. When a user issues the command on the Macintosh computer to limit bandwidth usage, the computer becomes unresponsive.
   
   
2. When a user uses proxy settings for Internet connection and then accesses a Web site that does not exist, the Trend Micro Security client displays a blocking page stating that the Web site is unrated.
   
   
3. If users choose the option Set access for specific services and applications in the personal firewall for Mac OS X and then install the Trend Micro Security client, users need to allow connections to icorepluginMgr when prompted by the system. icorepluginMgr is used to register the client to the server.
   
   
4. A Java-based application on Macintosh computers may take longer to launch if the application links to a large number of .jar files. Trend Micro Security needs to scan all the .jar files for security risks before the application can be launched. If users experience this problem, you can consider adding .jar to the scan exclusion list.

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8. Release History

Visit the Trend Micro Web site to learn more about updates to this product.

http://www.trendmicro.com

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9. Contact Information

A license to the Trend Micro software usually includes the right to product updates, pattern file updates, and basic technical support for one (1) year from the date of purchase only. After the first year, Maintenance must be renewed on an annual basis at Trend Micro's then-current Maintenance fees.

You can contact Trend Micro via fax, phone, and email, or visit us at http://www.trendmicro.com.

Evaluation copies of Trend Micro products can be downloaded from our Web site.

Global Mailing Address/Telephone numbers

For global contact information in the Asia/Pacific region, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America, and Canada, refer to http://www.trendmicro.com/en/about/overview.htm.

The Trend Micro "About Us" screen displays. Click the appropriate link in the "Contact Us" section of the screen.

Note: This information is subject to change without notice.

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10. About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, Inc. provides virus protection, anti-spam, and content-filtering security products and services. Trend Micro allows companies worldwide to stop viruses and other malicious code from a central point before they can reach the desktop.

Copyright 2009-2010, Trend Micro Incorporated. All rights reserved. Trend Micro, the t-ball logo and OfficeScan are trademarks of Trend Micro Incorporated and are registered in some jurisdictions. All other product or company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.

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11. License Agreement

Information about your license agreement with Trend Micro can be viewed at http://www.trendmicro.com/en/purchase/license/.

Third-party licensing information can be viewed from the About page on the Trend Micro Security server’s Web console.

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A version of the macOS operating system
Screenshot of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Developer	Apple Inc.
OS family
Source model	Closed, with open source components
Released to manufacturing	April 29, 2005; 15 years ago (2005-04-29)[1]
Latest release	10.4.11 / November 14, 2007; 12 years ago (2007-11-14)
Update method	Apple Software Update
Platforms	IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC
Kernel type	Hybrid (XNU)
License	Commercialproprietary software[2]
Preceded by	Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Succeeded by	Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Official website	Apple - Mac OS X at the Wayback Machine (archived July 28, 2006)
Support status
Obsolete, unsupported as of September 4, 2009, Safari support ended November 2010 and iTunes support terminated as well.[3]

Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and serveroperating system for Mac computers. Tiger was released to the public on April 29, 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Some of the new features included a fast searching system called Spotlight, a new version of the Safari web browser, Dashboard, a new 'Unified' theme, and improved support for 64-bit addressing on Power Mac G5s. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger offered a number of features, such as fast file searching and improved graphics processing, that Microsoft had spent several years struggling to add to Windows with acceptable performance.^[4]

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was included with all new Macs, and was also available as an upgrade for existing Mac OS X users, or users of supported pre-Mac OS X systems. The server edition, Mac OS X Server 10.4, was also available for some Macintosh product lines. Six weeks after its official release, Apple had delivered 2 million copies of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, representing 16% of all Mac OS X users. Apple claimed that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was the most successful Apple OS release in the company's history.^[5] At the WWDC on June 11, 2007, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, announced that out of the 22 million Mac OS X users, more than 67% were using Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.^[6]

Apple announced a transition to Intel x86 processors during Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's lifetime, making it the first Apple operating system to work on Apple–Intel architecture machines. The original Apple TV, released in March 2007, shipped with a customized version of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger branded "Apple TV OS" that replaced the usual GUI with an updated version of Front Row.^[7]

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was succeeded by Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on October 26, 2007, after 30 months, making Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger the longest running version of Mac OS X.^[8] The last security update released for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger users was the 2009-005 update.^[9][10] The next security update, 2009-006^[11] only included support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The latest supported version of QuickTime is 7.6.4. The latest version of iTunes that can run on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is 9.2.1, because 10.0 only supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and later.^[12] Safari 4.1.3 is the final version for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger as of November 18, 2010.^[13] Despite not having received security updates since then, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger remains popular with Power Mac users and retrocomputing enthusiasts due to its wide software and hardware compatibility, as it is the last Mac OS X version to support the Classic Environment, a Mac OS 9 compatibility layer, and PowerPC G3 processors.^[14]

System requirements[edit]

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was initially available in a PowerPC edition, with an Intel edition released beginning at Mac OS X 10.4.4 Tiger. There is no universal version of the client operating system, although Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server was made available on a universal DVD from version Mac OS X 10.4.7 Tiger. While Apple shipped the PowerPC edition bundled with PowerPC-based Macs and also sold it as a separate retail box, the only way to obtain the Intel version was to buy an Intel-based Mac bundled with it. However, it was possible to buy the 'restore' DVDs containing the Intel version through unofficial channels such as eBay, and officially through Apple if one could provide proof of purchase of the appropriate Intel Mac. These grey-colored ‘restore’ DVDs supplied with new Macs, are designed to only restore on the model of Mac that they are intended for. However, they can be modified to work on any Intel Mac. The retail PowerPC-only DVD can be used on any PowerPC-based Mac supported by Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

The system requirements of the PowerPC edition are:^[15]

• Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processor
• Built-in FireWire
• DVD drive for installation
• 256MB of RAM
• 3GB of available hard disk space (4GB if the user install the developer tools)

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger removed support for older New World ROM Macs such as the original iMacs and iBooks that were supported in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther; however it is possible to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on these Macs using third-party software (such as XPostFacto) that overrides the checks made at the beginning of the installation process. Likewise, machines such as beige Power Mac G3s and ‘Wall Street’ PowerBook G3s that were dropped by Mac OS X 10.3 Panther can also be made to run both Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in this way. Also, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger can be installed on unsupported New World ROM Macs by installing it on a supported Mac, then swapping hard drives. Old World ROM Macs require the use of XPostFacto to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was the last version of Mac OS X to support the PowerPC G3 processor.

History[edit]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs first presented Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in his keynote presentation at the WWDC on June 28, 2004, ten months before its commercial release in April 2005. Four months before that official release, several non-commercial, developer's releases of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger leaked onto the internet via BitTorrent file sharers. It was first mentioned on Apple's website on May 4, 2004. Apple sued these file sharers.^[16] On April 12, 2005, Apple announced Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's official, worldwide release would be April 29. All Apple Stores around the world held Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger seminars, presentations and demos.

On June 6, 2005 at the WWDC in San Francisco, Jobs reported that nearly two million copies had been sold in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's first six weeks of release, making Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger the most successful operating system release in Apple's history. Jobs then disclosed that Mac OS X had been engineered from its inception to work with Intel's x86 line of processors in addition to the PowerPC, the CPU for which the operating system had always been publicly marketed. Apple concurrently announced its intent to release the first x86-based computers in June 2006, and to move the rest of its computers to x86 microprocessors by June 2007. On January 10, 2006, Apple presented its new iMac and MacBook Pro computers running on Intel Core Duo processors, and announced that the entire Apple product line would run on Intel processors by the end of 2006. Apple then released the Mac Pro and announced the new Xserve on August 8, completing the Intel transition in 210 days, roughly ten months ahead of the original schedule.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is the first version of Mac OS X to be supplied on a DVD, although the DVD could originally be exchanged for CDs for $9.95. It is also currently the only version of Mac OS X/OS X/macOS that had an update version number ending with a value greater than 9, as the last version of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was 10.4.11.

New and changed features[edit]

End-user features[edit]

Apple advertises that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger has over 150 new and improved features, including:

• Spotlight — Spotlight is a full-text and metadata search engine, which can search everything on one's Mac including Microsoft Word documents, iCal calendars and Address Book contact cards. The feature is also used to build the concept of ‘smart folders’ into the Finder. Spotlight will index files as they are saved, so they can be quickly and easily found through a search-as-you-type box in the menu bar. As a side-effect, it adds hidden folders and indexing files to removable media like USB flash drives.
• iChat AV — The new iChat AV 3.0 in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger supports up to four participants in a video conference and ten participants in an audio conference. It also now supports communication using the XMPP protocol. A XMPP server called iChat Server is included on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server.
• Safari RSS — The new Safari 2.0 web browser in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger features a built-in reader for RSS and Atomweb syndication that can be accessed easily from an RSS button in the address bar of the web browser window. An updated version of Safari, included as part of the free Mac OS X (10.4.3 Tiger update, can also pass the Acid2 web standards test.
• Mail 2 — The new version of Mail.app email client included in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger featured an updated interface, "Smart Mailboxes", which utilizes the Spotlight search system, parental controls, as well as several other features.
• Dashboard — The Dashboard is a new mini-applications layer based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which returns the desk accessories concept to the Mac OS. These accessories are known as widgets. It comes with several widgets such as Weather, World Clock, Unit Converter, and Dictionary/Thesaurus. More are available for free online. Its similarity to the Konfabulator application caused some criticism.^[17]
• Automator — A scripting tool to link applications together to form complex automated workflows (written in AppleScript, Cocoa, or both). Automator comes with a complete library of actions for several applications that can be used together to make a Workflow.
• VoiceOver — screen reader interface similar to Jaws for Windows and other Windows screen readers that offers the blind and visually impaired user keyboard control and spoken English descriptions of what is happening on screen. VoiceOver enables users with visual impairment to use applications via keyboard commands. VoiceOver is capable of reading aloud the contents of files including web pages, mail messages and word processing files. Complete keyboard navigation lets the user control the computer with the keyboard rather than the mouse, a menu is displayed in a window showing all the available keyboard commands that can be used.
• A complete built-in Dictionary/Thesaurus based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, accessible through an application, Dictionary, a Dashboard widget, and as a system-wide command (see below).
• .Mac syncing — Though this is not a new feature, .Mac syncing in Tiger is much improved over Panther. Syncing tasks in Tiger are now accomplished through the .Mac system preferences pane rather than the iSync application.
• QuickTime 7 — A new version of Apple's multimedia software has support for the new H.264/AVC codec, which offers better quality and scalability than other video codecs.^{[citation needed]} This new codec is used by iChat AV for clearer video conferencing. New classes within Cocoa provide full access to QuickTime for Cocoa application developers. The new QuickTime 7 player application bundled with Tiger now includes more advanced audio and video controls as well as a more detailed Information dialog, and the new player has been rebuilt using Apple's Cocoa API to take advantage of the new technologies more easily.
• New Unix features — New versions of cp, mv, and rsync that support files with resource forks. Command-line support for features like the above-mentioned Spotlight are also included.
• Xcode 2.0 — Xcode 2.0, Apple's Cocoa development tool now includes visual modelling, an integrated Apple Reference Library and graphical remote debugging.

New applications in Tiger[edit]

• Automator — Automator uses workflows to process repetitive tasks automatically
• Grapher — Grapher is a new application capable of creating 2D and 3D graphs similar to those of Graphing Calculator.
• Dictionary — A dictionary and thesaurus program that uses the New Oxford American Dictionary. It has a fast GUI for displaying the Dictionary, and allows the user to search the dictionary with Spotlight, to print definitions, and to copy and paste text into documents. Dictionary also provides a Dictionary service in the Application menu, and Cocoa and WebKit provides a global keyboard shortcut (ctrl-⌘-D by default) for all applications that display text with them. Its use was furthered in the next version of OS X by providing definitions from Wikipedia. The Dictionary application is a more feature-filled version of the Dictionary widget.
• Quartz Composer — Quartz Composer is a development tool for processing and rendering graphical data.
• AU Lab — AU Lab is a developer application for testing and mixing Audio Units.
• Dashboard — Dashboard is a widget application. Tiger widgets include: a calculator, dictionary, a world clock, a calendar, and more (full list). Users can also download and install more widgets.

Improvements[edit]

• An upgraded kernel with optimized kernel resource locking and access control lists, and with support for 64-bituserlandaddress spaces on machines with 64-bit processors.^[18]
• An updated libSystem with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions; combined with the aforementioned kernel change, this allows individual applications to address more than 4 GB of memory when run on 64-bit processors, although an application using Apple libraries or frameworks other than libSystem would need to have two processes, one running the 64-bit code and one running the code that requires other libraries and frameworks.^[18][19]
• A new startup daemon called launchd that allows for faster booting.
• The printing dialog in Tiger now features a drop down menu for creating PDFs, sending PDFs to Mail, and other PDF related actions. However, the user interface was criticized for creating a hybrid widget that looks like a plain button but acts like a pop-up menu. This is one of only three places in the entire Mac OS X interface where such an element appears.^{[citation needed]}
• Dock menus now have menu items to open an application at login, or to remove the icon from the dock.
• The Window menu in the Finder now features a "Cycle Through Windows" menu item.
• The Get Info window for items in the Finder now includes a "More Info" section that includes Spotlight information tags such as Image Height & Width, when the file was last opened, and where the file originated.
• Early development of resolution independence. Apple notes that this will be a user-level feature in a future version of Mac OS X.^[20] Among the changes, the maximum size of icons was increased to 256x256. However, the Finder does not yet support this size.

Technologies[edit]

• A new graphics processing API, Core Image, leveraging the power of the available accelerated graphics cards.

Core Image allows programmers to easily leverage programmable GPUs for fast image processing for special effects and image correction tools. Some of the included Image Units are Blur, Color Blending, Generator Filters, Distortion Filters, Geometry Filters, Halftone features and much more.

• A new data persistence API, Core Data, that makes it easier for developers to handle structured data in their applications.

The Mac OS X Core Data API helps developers create data structures for their applications. Core Data provides undo, redo and save functions for developers without them having to write any code.

• A new video graphics API, Core Video, which leverages Core Image to provide real-time video processing.

Apple's Motion real-time video effects program takes advantage of Core Video in Tiger. Core Video lets developers easily integrate real-time video effects and processing into their applications.

• Core Audio integrates a range of audio functionality directly into the operating system.

Interface differences[edit]

In every major new revision of Mac OS X, Apple alters the graphical user interface somewhat. In Tiger, the menu bar displayed at the top of the screen now features a colored Spotlight button in the upper right corner; the menu itself has a smoother 'glassy' texture to replace the faint pinstripes in Panther.

Also of note, Tiger introduces a new window theme, often described as 'Unified'. A variation on the standard, non-brushed metal theme used since the introduction of Mac OS X, this theme integrates the title bar and the toolbar of a window. A prominent example of an application that utilizes this theme is Mail.

Accessibility[edit]

Tiger was the first version of Mac OS X to include the "Zoom" screen magnifier functionality, which allowed the user to zoom on to the area around the mouse by holding CONTROL and scrolling the mouse wheel up or down (to zoom in and out respectively).^[21]

Tiger trademark lawsuit[edit]

Shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, the computer retailer TigerDirect.com, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that Apple infringed TigerDirect.com's trademark with the Mac OS X Tiger operating system.^[22]

The following is a quotation from TigerDirect.com's court memorandum:

Apple Computer's use of its infringing family of Tiger marks to expand sales of products besides its operating system software is already evident — for example, Apple Computer is offering free iPods and laptops as part of its Tiger World Premiere giveaway. In short, notwithstanding its representation to the PTO that it would only use Tiger in connection with their unique computer operating system software, Apple Computer has in recent weeks used a family of Tiger marks in connection with a substantially broader group of products and services, including the very products and services currently offered by Tiger Direct under its famous family of Tiger marks.^[23]

In 2005 TigerDirect was denied a preliminary injunction that would have prevented Apple from using the mark while the case was decided.^[24] Apple and TigerDirect reached a settlement in 2006, after which TigerDirect withdrew its opposition.^[25]

Support for Intel processors[edit]

At Apple's 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference, CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company would begin selling Mac computers with Intel x86 processors in 2006. To allow developers to begin producing software for these Intel-based Macs, Apple made available a prototype Intel-based Mac ("Developer Transition Kit") that included a version of Mac OS X v10.4.1 designed to run on x86 processors.

This build included Apple's Rosetta compatibility layer — a translation process that allows x86-based versions of the OS to run software designed for PowerPC with a moderate performance penalty. This is contrasted with the contemporary Mac OS 9 Classic mode, which used comparably larger amounts of system resources.

Soon after the Developer Transition Kits began shipping, copies of Tiger x86 were leaked onto file sharing networks. Although Apple had implemented a Trusted ComputingDRM scheme in the transition hardware and OS in an attempt to stop people installing Tiger x86 on non-Apple PCs, the OSx86 project soon managed to remove this restriction.^[26] As Apple released each update with newer safeguards to prevent its use on non-Apple hardware, unofficially modified versions were released that circumvented Apple's safeguards. However, with the release of 10.4.5, 10.4.6, and 10.4.7 the unofficially modified versions continued to use the kernel from 10.4.4 because later kernels have hardware locks and depend heavily on EFI. By late 2006, the 10.4.8 kernel had been cracked.^[27]

At MacWorld San Francisco 2006, Jobs announced the immediate availability of Mac OS X v10.4.4, the first publicly available release of Tiger compiled for both PowerPC- and Intel x86-based machines.

Release history[edit]

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