OK, I admit, this has nothing to do with the functionality, features, or stability of Leopard. It has everything to do with software compatibility.

I don’t want to upgrade to Leopard, because my copy of Fireworks 8 (which I love) won’t work on Leopard. It would cost me $150 to upgrade it, on top of the $130 for Leopard. $280 for what? I already paid my Apple tax when buying my MacBook, and don’t want to have to pay it again. Fireworks 8 works in Vista, why can’t it work in Leopard? Probably because of Macromedia–but who’s going to work on patching when all the Mac fanatics out there are dumping loads of dough on OS upgrades and new Creative Suite collections?

And I refuse to pirate the stuff, before someone brings up that “simple” solution.

So here I am, frustrated. Even worse, new apps for OS X that come out? They need 10.5 or higher. So I can’t use the newer version of FileZilla. I can’t use this app, or that one. (And things aren’t going to get any better).

Microsoft has it right. When was the last time you saw an app that said “Requires Windows Vista” that wasn’t specifically built for modifying the look/behavior of Vista?

Apple, you suck. It’s a nice operating system, but you stick me in a bad place: cut off from new programs, or re-buy all my old apps. Grr…