March 25, 2021
20 years ago Apple released Mac OS X.
Yesterday it was 20 years since Apple released the operating system Mac OS X, what we today call macOS.
Mac OS X was the tenth version of Apple’s operating system for Macs and therefore received the prefix “X”. It was a prefix that had to stick with until 2016.
Below you watch Steve Jobs introduce Mac OS X on Macworld in January 2000. They say that Mac OS X would start shipping in January 2001, but it took until March 24, 2001 before Mac OS X finally started rolling out to Mac computers.