[Hidden-tech] OS X 10.9.4 software compatibility

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:17:02 -0400 Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:

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> I have OS X 10.9.4 installed to my Mac. I'm trying to figure out if my 
> software will work if I update to OSX 10.6.8, but looking up each 
> application tells me the minimum OS requirements, but no means of 
> knowing if the applications are bug-free when operating on the new OS.

Do you mean you have 10.6.8 installed and want to upgrade to 10.9.4?  You 
can't possibly mean you want to *downgrade* from 10.9.4 to 10.6.8...

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> Googling is wasting my time as I am not arriving at answers. Is there a 
> single place to go to find these answers?

I'd try apple.com.

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> I'm using:
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> MS Office Mac 2011
> Quickbooks Mac 2010
> Quicken Essentials Mac
> Adobe CS5
> Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
> Thunderbird 24.6.0
> mSecure 3.5.3

You might need to to visit each vendor (Microsoft, Intuit, Adobe, Mozilla, 
etc.) to find out what versions of MacOSX their software works under.

*Generally* speaking, unless the software is really old or the upgrade is a 
really major jump, there should not be problems, but it depends...  One rule 
of thumb is to look at release dates of the software and of the O/S version.  
If the software was released after the O/S version you are upgrading to, you 
should be OK.

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> Also have some others, but don't really need/use them like I do these.
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> Thank-you.
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