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What is the rate of Mac OS X Leopard adoption? Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on Mar 31, 2008 11:19 AM
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Back at the Macworld Expo in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that some 20 percent of the installed base was running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. But do we...[Read the rest]

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