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Curious, how long does Apple provide support for their OS versions?

Are their still updates for 10.4?

10.4 - last update was November 2007. 10.4 was a weird OS, since it was their PPC -> Intel transition OS and a lot of people still use it because it's easy to get running on a lot of machines, and it runs a lot of the older "classic" Mac apps, pre-OS X.

Apple has about a 2-3 year support cycle on their OSes, as the past few OSes have required certain hardware features not present in earlier Macs.

People piss and moan about it, but the hardware development under Intel and under Apple's CPU design people is moving at a fast pace and the stuff Apple is doing requires newer hardware. It would not surprise me at all if the Mountain Lion cutoff is due to either graphics or networking.

The Apple haters forget that not only do their existing Macs still work, but it's up to third party developers whether they want to support older Macs or not.

I can afford to upgrade my hardware every three years or so, and I've never been bitten by any Apple updates, just Adobe dragging their feet. While I maybe old, I've found that I don't like old hardware.