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What's Japanese for Ow? (2/22/98)
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MacWorld Expo Tokyo just finished up, and a MacWEEK article has some sparse coverage of the event. Why so sparse? According to a Macintouch source, it's because the show was very disappointing.
Reportedly the keynote address was "thin," but apparently that wasn't necessarily a real problem, since the hall was only 2/3 full, even though the keynote was a free event this year. (Part of that may be due to the lack of a "big draw" speaker.) Much more disturbing, though, is hearing that the show floor was only half the size of last year's show. I suppose we should thank our lucky stars for the release of Office 98, or else there would have been next to no new software offerings unveiled.
Is it perhaps an omen that the keynote was delivered by a Microsoft manager? Granted, it was Ben Waldman, the general manager of their Macintosh business unit, but we still find it a little unsettling. Then again, we're still suffering post-traumatic stress from the sudden appearance of Bill Gates' enormously magnified face beaming down at us at last August's MacWorld Expo Boston. We may never sleep soundly again...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/22/98 episode: February 22, 1998: Mac OS 8.1 has finally come to AtAT's virtual land, spreading stability and speed everywhere it goes. Meanwhile, a grassroots Mac web advocacy campaign gains the omnipresent Don Crabb's seal of approval, and the Mac climate in Japan drops a few degrees with the disappointing nature of the recent Expo...
Other scenes from that episode: 474: 8.1 and Counting (2/22/98) Okay, we admit it. We dragged our feet on installing the Mac OS 8.1 upgrade. Basically, when you've got thousands of soap opera addicts who need their daily fix, it seems irresponsible to risk the possibility of rendering them soapless by recklessly upgrading the system software on the machine used to produce the show... 475: It Still Just Works (2/22/98) Way back in October, we told you about Bill Vlahos, a Mac user who started a grass-roots advertising campaign called "Macintosh, It Just Works!" Basically Bill wanted to spread the word about the Mac's biggest advantage: that, most of the time, working and playing on a Mac is a lot more trouble-free than doing so on any other computer...
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