NEW: SUPER SLIM G3 POWERBOOKS MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS JULY 1999 JULY MAC OS ROADMAP • PRO SC Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk ANNERS • REMOVABLE DRIVES • PALM • MP3 DRIVES • PALM ANNERS • REMOVABLE • PIRATES TheThe BestBest … new technologies for your Mac Mac OS 8.6 QuickTime 4 MP3 music Mac OS X Sherlock 2 PowerPC G4 Palm pilots Mac Why this handheld is for you Apple: the movie! We preview the new flick that pits Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates JULY 1999 £4.99 THE BEST NEW TECHNOLOGIES REVEALED Make the most of your Mac – prepare now to read me first Simon Jary, editor-in-chief get the latest top techs working in your Mac: pple only shows off stuff that’s going V-Twin/Sherlock… You promised this stuff three and a half years ago! to ship”, boasted Apple UK’s PR manager Michael Spindler was Apple CEO in those days, for God’s sake. Blackburn A at the launch of the latest system Rovers weren’t just in the Premiership – they were the champions. NEWS: Apple’s Mac OS roadmap. upgrade (see page 51) and the new slim Three and a half years is a very long time indeed in computing. And now PowerBook G3 (page 50). His shipping we’re going to get all that old stuff sold to us as something new this autumn. REVIEWS: QuickTime 4 Pro, OS X Server, forecast referred to a couple of the new features Forget streaming, I should have been steaming. Apple promises we’ll be seeing in the successor But no, I wasn’t mad. Nowadays, I tend to believe Apple will live up to its Mac OS 8.6, RealPlayerG2. to Mac OS 8.6: Multi-user support and a whizzy promises. Madness, surely… I believed that guff three and a half years ago, new version of the Sherlock search engine (see pages 20-21). Hmm, sounds and what I have I got to show for it? System 7 with a platinum menu bar. familiar, I thought. The difference is Steve Jobs again.The man who at least says that “real FEATURES: MP3 music. It was way back in January 1996 that I sat through a rather turgid artists ship”.The much-maligned Steve Jobs, if you watch upcoming TV movie Macworld Expo keynote in San Francisco.You see, there was no Steve Jobs Pirates of Silicon Valley (see page 29).The new Steve Jobs really does believe at the helm back in those days. Instead, we got to watch the less charismatic in keeping both secrets and promises. Jim Buckley (head of US Salezzzz) showcase new stuff such as the Apple Nowadays, it’s old rival – and fellow pirate – Bill Gates who can’t keep Media Tool 2.0 multimedia author (remember that?) and some great new his mouth shut about fantastic future stuff. Just like Apple of old, Microsoft beige boxes.The morning livened up considerably when Apple’s Vito fills its probably ultra-dreary expo keynotes with guaranteed crowd pleasers. Salvaggio came on-stage to demo parts of the forthcoming Copland Take Bill’s latest vision, the catchily named “digital dashboard”. operating system (then the “soon-to-be System 8”). It’s John Sculley’s Knowledge Navigator all over again, but with enough Salvaggio showed off several very neat features of Copland.“Oooh…,” added fantasy to make it as unlikely as its predecessor was back in we all sighed as he showed how in “the near future” we’d be able to 1989. Gates has even been busy positioning Microsoft as a “knowledge- configure a single Mac system for multiple users – each with his or her management company”. own preferences, font sets, and desktop patterns.“Ahhh…,” we exhaled The digital dashboard would have scrolling stock quotes; queued voice as he opened up the remarkable V-Twin – which could search your files mail and email messages; calendar; weather forecast and traffic information; for words and phrases. and customized buttons that link to news service feeds, customer and sales Every time Apple released a system update after that, I’d shrug it off data, and other information. Essentially, it’s a personalized desktop portal – I’ll wait for Copland and those two new features. Of course, Copland never focused on business intelligence, running on a PDA or cell phone. showed up and Apple paid for its non-appearance with lost market share, Bill sees himself and other business big boys staying in the driving seat an $11 stock price and an operating system found seriously wanting. through control of such dashboards. Microsoft’s journey on “the road ahead” We trusted Apple to ship a better OS.We didn’t believe for a second is yet again a proprietary one based around a single driver in an expensive former CEO John Sculley’s much-touted notion of a “Knowledge Navigator” executive motor. Bill’s great fear of computing’s public transport – the – like a big Palm Pilot with colour flat-panel display, speech recognition, Internet – is once more allayed in his digital daydream. full-motion video and high-speed broadband data links. Ironically, such But dream it will remain for some years – maybe even another three and a machine is now entirely possible with P1 plastics, NaturallySpeaking a half.Today, Apple is finally bringing home those Copland visions, dressed, and QuickTime 4. of course, in its new voguish colours. And now it’s Microsoft’s turn to strut its So, shouldn’t I now be growling or at the very least grumbling stuff on the future-folly fashion parade, modelling all of its emperor’s simply to the cheery PR that I’d “seen it all before”. Multiple-user Macs… fabulous new clothes. 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