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Quark, one of the few core platform apps not yet available for X, reportedly has entered the alpha (ie pre-beta) testing stage as the company has shipped CDs with the software to testers, according to a report on Macintouch yesterday.

"Quark started shipping out Alpha CDs of Quark 6.0 to testers today," Macintouch states quoting an unnamed reader. "This is a good sign for those on the sidelines that there is progress on this greatly-anticipated OS X application."

Apple has partly blamed slow pro desktop sales on the lack of an X-compatible version of Quark. During his keynote address his Steveness sniped at the software maker as did Phil Schiller during his Power of X presentation.

In related news, our European readers might want to take advantage of the 50-percent off deal Quark is offering for those that purchase the XPress 5.0 upgrade.

Editor's note: Me thinks that Quark is eager to show movement toward getting an X-compatible version of XPress out. As reported by The Register, the company's public display of irritation last Fall with OS X and the Mac platform in general backfired badly and they've been playing catch up ever since.