But software developers follow the money, and they knew that they eventually had to follow advanced users, most of whom got used to having Macs that didn’t crash and made hooking up to networks a cinch. Plus Apple, with what seems like monthly updates, has improved X’s performance and features. With this summer’s promised “Jaguar” tuneup, it looks as though OS X will have matured into a fully useable — and, in its words, “buzzword-compliant” — operating system.

The latest software company coming to the party is Macromedia, Inc., which has just released its OS X-native suite of Web authoring tools. Dreamweaver, the Web design software of choice for many, has been treated to a thorough makeover and renaming—it’s now called Dreamweaver MX — that goes far beyond the last, fairly anemic update.

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