After this, Apple began naming its releases after big cats, which lasted until OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10.0, was released in March 2001, with its first update, 10.1, arriving later that year. The first is colloquially called the 'classic' Mac OS, which was introduced in 1984, and the final release of which was Mac OS 9 in 1999.
Within the market of desktop, laptop and home computers, and by web usage, it is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows.macOS is the second major series of Macintosh operating systems. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac family of computers. MacOS macOS ( previously Mac OS X and later OS X) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc.
