AppleShare IP 6.3, the previously rumored upgrade to Apple\'s suite of LAN and Internet services, has officially been confirmed. The new version is said to provide a new integrated administration system, called Mac OS Server Admin, among other things.
Last week at this time, Apple Chief Executive Officer, Steve P. Jobs, was going through his stack of Macworld Expo speech cards with a big fat magic marker — replacing almost all occurrences of the word \"ATI\" with streaks of black ink.
During Wednesday\'s Macworld Keynote, Steve Jobs will call Microsoft\'s Macintosh Business Unit manager, Ben Waldmen, up on stage to demonstrate two of the latest Microsoft applications under development for the Macintosh: Outlook Express 5.0 and Internet Explorer 5.0.
On Tuesday, Apple seeded the third beta of Mac OS 8.7, code-named Sonata, to developers. The build, which is individually code-named \"Signed,\" is the first that is said to be \"fully suitable for everyday use.\" This is just the 7th privately-seeded build of Apple\'s next-generation Mac OS, which is scheduled to turn Golden Master sometime a little later this summer.
The information presented in this report was gathered over the course of the past few months from multiple sources, both in and outside of Apple. Extensive research has been done on the story, so much so that mumblings of the deal have actually leaked to other less Apple-oriented publications. The full story, a complete analysis of the Apple Retail strategy and how it will effect Apple\'s future, is fully integrated below.
When Apple interim CEO, Steve Jobs, killed the Newton project a while back, he promised the Macintosh faithful a replacement. Last year Jobs made a hostile attempt to acquire Palm Computing from 3Com Corporation, makers of the leading PDA device, the Palm Pilot, but 3Com wouldn\'t bite.
Apple\'s Consumer Portable — possibly the most public of the many widely kept secrets in Cupertino. The project has already been the focus of one too many misinformation campaigns, though if you ask anyone at Apple if they have any regrets about the project, they\'ll probably grin and tell you that announcing the unit over a year in advance was their only mistake.
With the anticipated introduction of the Consumer Portable now just weeks away, Apple executives, under the order of everyone\'s favorite iCEO, have been going the extra mile to keep most of the project\'s aspects under wraps. But according to sources, they\'re taking a very different and unorthodox approach this time — intentionally misleading their own employees.
The developers of the most popular Macintosh database application are at it again. The next-generation of File Maker, FileMaker Pro 5.0, has been under heavy development at FileMaker, Inc. for some time now. According to sources, the release due out sometime later this year sports a complete interface overhaul, more powerful creation tools, and improved web-integration.
Sometime in July, Adobe will begin shipping a major upgrade to their Photoshop image editing software. Photoshop 5.5 will integrate Adobe\'s Image Ready 2.0 for optimizing graphics for the World Wide Web, and will sport a number of additional features that have been frequently requested by previous Photoshop customers.
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