Chris Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) on Monday previewed the next version of its Mac OS X (news - web sites) operating system, which it said would include powerful search features that would put it far ahead of the next major update to Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) market-leading Windows software.Cupertino, California-based Apple also introduced a 30-inch flat panel display -- its largest yet -- in a sleeker and trimmer housing, which adds to the 20-inch and 23-inch displays it already offers. That new offering puts Apple up against other PC companies that sell large flat panels, such as Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL - news) and Hewlett-Packard (news - web sites) Co. (NYSE:HPQ - news). Apple's search technology, which it calls Spotlight, lets Mac users find any file, document or information created by any application on a Macintosh (news - web sites) by entering the query in a search at the upper right hand corner of the desktop. Simplifying the search process on a PC's hard drive has emerged as one of the major goals of both Tiger and Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is due out in 2006.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Many of the features due to appear Microsoft's Longhorn will appear a year early in Mac OS X "Tiger", Apple claimed today. The next major revision does indeed offer some benefits that OS vendors have been talking about for more than a decade, such as real-time content retrieval, and point and click scripting. But there are other attractions amongst the ten CEO Steve Jobs showcased this morning at Apple's Annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), such as APIs for video and image manipulation libraries which will be bundled withe OS, real 64-bit addressing, and iChat video conferencing. But the stars are undoubtedly search and scripting.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielos Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 The new displays are crazy-huge, but the 30" requires a $600 video card! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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