<<Actually, a little prediction - MacOS 8 will _not_ break very many prexisting apps. Probably better than 90% of applications that work properly today will work under MacOS 8. There's too big a software base to break it now.>>
I bet it'll be less than 90%. The reason for this is that apparently almost NO extensions and many control panels (if not most of them too) will be incompatible with System 8. Apple's newly stated stance is that it will no longer be working around third party software programmer's quirks in order to keep them working. This will be ESPECIALLY hard for Microsoft to deal with as their software has hindered Apple advancing the operating system on several occasions. Also, as MS uses extensions for almost all of its software, and these extensions routinely cause conflicts already, they'll most definitely be on the incompatible list.
This is a very intelligent thing for Apple to do, finally. Microsoft ALWAYS moves the OS forward without regard to the 3rd party, who is expected to fix their own bugs. Apple will now be doing to same thing...3rd parties will have to fix the bugs to get them to work, instead of Apple doing the workaround.
I still think they're going to have to drop the baggage to gain the benefits of true PowerPC power. The mac software vendors are just moving too slowly, and many of them are waiting longer and longer to release Mac versions. Look at Adobe, I think it's a personal insult to Apple that they're releasing PageMaker 6.5 for the PC at least 1-2 months ahead of the Mac version.
