Mountain Lion excluded from new 3rd party software updates - How prevalent?

[katewes]

For various reasons I had thought of camping for a while on Mountain Lion.

But I recently bought a software called "Capture One 8" by Phase One which is on special for owners of Sony cameras. It was such an amazing price that I immediately made the purchase without checking what the system requirements were. I assumed Mountain Lion was recent enough of an OSX version to be compatible with the software. To my shock, it required Mavericks.

Question: in your experience, are you already starting to find new versions of software being only for Mavericks and Yosemite?

To be honest, my main reticence to update to upgrade is I continue to hear anecdotes of problems in Mavericks Mail with Gmail IMAP, and because of my work I simply need rock-solid email performance which I am getting abundantly from Mountain Lion - and there are no features in Mavericks that entice me. Absolutely nothing.

Also, if I would need to buy an update for VMWare, since my current version doesn't play nicely with Mavericks, and there's a good chance I'd have to re-install Windows when I update. So for all those reasons, I just wanted to continue with Mountain Lion.

 

[MisterMe]

This is a somewhat puzzling question. There are software titles that support no OS older than Mavericks. There are others that support MacOS X 10.3 and every version of MacOS X/OS X that followed. These are choices made by their developers. Always always always read the system requirements of applications and peripherals before you purchase them.

 

[vista980622]

For various reasons I had thought of camping for a while on Mountain Lion.

But I recently bought a software called "Capture One 8" by Phase One which is on special for owners of Sony cameras. It was such an amazing price that I immediately made the purchase without checking what the system requirements were. I assumed Mountain Lion was recent enough of an OSX version to be compatible with the software. To my shock, it required Mavericks.

Question: in your experience, are you already starting to find new versions of software being only for Mavericks and Yosemite?

To be honest, my main reticence to update to upgrade is I continue to hear anecdotes of problems in Mavericks Mail with Gmail IMAP, and because of my work I simply need rock-solid email performance which I am getting abundantly from Mountain Lion - and there are no features in Mavericks that entice me. Absolutely nothing.

Also, if I would need to buy an update for VMWare, since my current version doesn't play nicely with Mavericks, and there's a good chance I'd have to re-install Windows when I update. So for all those reasons, I just wanted to continue with Mountain Lion.

Install Mavericks on a seperate partition. Reboot to Mavericks when you need to use Capture 8 One and easily switch back to Mountain Lion when you need reliable mail.

 

[katewes]

Install Mavericks on a seperate partition. Reboot to Mavericks when you need to use Capture 8 One and easily switch back to Mountain Lion when you need reliable mail.

Sounds a great idea, however, my 256GB SSD hasn't got that much space left.

 

[vista980622]

Sounds a great idea, however, my 256GB SSD hasn't got that much space left.

Then install Mavericks on an external USB hard-drive.
Those are really cheap now and provide a fluent and usable (although not as fast as your SSD) performance.