Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple launching Mac OS X, the operating system that serves as the foundation of ...

The first Mac software was called System 1 and it was released on January 24, 1984, and there have been 30 major updates since. Apple rebranded to Mac OS with the release of mac OS 8 on July 26, 1997.

For the record, I’ve been using OS X 10.9 since it was in beta, and haven’t yet — knock on wood — encountered any of these Apple Mail-related issues I’ve been seeing others grouse about for months.