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1 Features

• Increased support for Microsoft Windows networks
• Quartz Extreme for compositing graphics directly on the video card
• An adaptive spam mail filter
• A system-wide repository for contact information in the new Apple Address Book
• Apple Rendezvous networking
• iChat, an Apple-branded, officially-supported third party AOL Instant Messenger client
• A revamped Finder with searching built directly into every window
• Dozens of new Apple Universal Access features
• Sherlock 3Apple Computer's Sherlock 3 technology is built into Mac OS X version 10. Unlike Sherlock 2, Sherlock 3 no longer searches for files on your hard drive. Instead, the new technology from the original Sherlock Internet searching is not only its sole feature: Web serviceA web service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications. Software applications written in various programming languages and running on various platforms can use web services to exchange data over computer nets (See WatsonWatson is a software program made by Karelia Software, LLC for the Apple Macintosh which provides Internet content through a familiar Mac OS X-like interface through the use of plug-ins. Plug-ins are programmed in the Objective-C language using the Cocoa)
• Increased speed across the entire system

2 Version history

• 18 September 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom: Mac OS X 10.2.1
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.1
• 11 November 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom: Mac OS X 10.2.2
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• 19 December 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom: Mac OS X 10.2.3
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.3
• 13 February 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.4
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.4
• 10 April 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.5
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.5
• 6 May 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.6
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.6
• 23 September 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.8
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.8
• 3 October 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.8 build 6R73
  • VersionTracker: Mac OS X 10.2.8 build 6R73

Note: Mac OS X 10.2.7 was only available to the new Power Mac G5s and aluminum PowerBook G4s released before Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Officially, it was never released to the general public.