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==History== The name "Mac OS X Tiger" was reported by Mac Magazine on March 30, 2004; According to Mac Magazine, this information came from a safe source. Furthermore, Mac Magazine reported that the internal codename for Mac OS X Tiger had been "Merlot".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.macmagazine.com.br/noticias/arquivo/002650.php |title=Mac OS X 10.4 terá codinome "Tiger", voltando à série de felinos |language=pt |date=March 30, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040405080255if_/http://www.macmagazine.com.br/noticias/arquivo/002650.php |archive-date=April 5, 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Apple mentioned Mac OS X Tiger by name in a press release published on May 4, 2004, for its upcoming WWDC 2004 event.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2004/05/04Steve-Jobs-to-Kick-Off-Apples-Worldwide-Developers-Conference-2004-with-Preview-of-Mac-OS-X-Tiger/ | title=Steve Jobs to Kick off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 with Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger" |publisher=Apple}}</ref> Apple CEO Steve Jobs first presented Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in his [[keynote]] presentation at the WWDC on June 28, 2004. In October and December 2004, several non-commercial developers' releases of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger leaked onto the internet via [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] file sharers. Apple sued these file sharers.<ref name="BBC-Tiger-sued">{{cite news|title=Apple sues 'Tiger' file sharers|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=December 22, 2004|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4117465.stm|access-date=December 9, 2007|location=London|archive-date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003144913/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4117465.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 12, 2005, Apple announced Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's official, worldwide release would be April 29. All [[Apple Store]]s around the world held Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger seminars, presentations and demos. On June 6, 2005, at the WWDC in [[San Francisco]], Jobs reported that nearly two million copies had been sold in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's first six weeks of release, making Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger the most successful operating system release in Apple's history. Jobs then disclosed that Mac OS X had been engineered from its inception to work with Intel's [[x86]] line of processors in addition to the PowerPC, the [[CPU]] for which the operating system had always been publicly marketed. Apple concurrently announced its intent to release the first x86-based computers in June 2006, and to move the rest of its computers to x86 microprocessors by June 2007. On January 10, 2006, Apple presented its new [[iMac]] and [[MacBook Pro]] computers running on [[Intel Core|Intel Core Duo]] processors, and announced that the entire Apple product line would run on Intel processors by the end of 2006. Apple then released the [[Mac Pro]] and announced the new [[Xserve]] on August 8, completing the Intel transition in 210 days, roughly ten months ahead of the original schedule. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is the first version of Mac OS X to be supplied on a DVD rather than a CD, although the DVD could originally be exchanged for CDs for $9.95.
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