Some strange behaviors in Mountain Lion
I recently took the plunge and upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion, and I've been dealing with some strange behaviors it exhibits. Never mind that it's slower than usual to boot up on my system (3 minutes average from initial power-on to normal operation), here are a few things I've noticed that may need ironing out in future updates:
1] I have Outlook 2011 on my system, and on a couple of occasions so far, when I start up, the program will automatically start itself up, just after the desktop appears. However, I don't have Outlook or any other app set to trigger itself on startup, so this has to be a fluke of the system.
2] Whenever I install something new, I get an error message of some sort, and yet the program I just installed works perfectly. I updated the system to 10.8.1 today, and got an error message saying the update couldn't be installed; when I restarted, lo and behold, I'm at 10.8.1 without any other problems. I also got a similar error message when I upgraded my copy of Parallels Desktop to version 8 recently, so I suppose there's a connection that involves updating or upgrading apps or system versions (and/or components thereof).
3] On startup, the Dock icon for Calendar defaults to July 17th, but eventually shows the correct date. This might not be such a great bug, but it is a little perplexing. Was July 17th an important date in Mountain Lion's development?
Anybody else notice these or similarly strange behaviors in Mountain Lion?
iMac (20-inch Early 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), 4 GB RAM