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Loose Lips Sink Ships (5/9/98)
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It's funny where little facts can leak out. Mac OS Rumors reports that Apple's web page listing Worldwide Developer Conference courses contains some interesting references to something called "Mac OS 2000," which Rumors suggests refers to the product of the operating system convergence project. (The page they link to contained no such references when we checked it out; presumably someone realized that said info wasn't supposed to be made public just yet and yanked it.)
As for "OS convergence," that's a phrase that Rumors has been bandying about for a while, referring to the way that Mac OS and Rhapsody are growing together, and will eventually become one operating system code base serving different needs on different platforms. Such a strategy allows one version of the OS tuned for server use, another for desktop clients, another for handhelds, etc. with all OSes derived from the same code base, making development more uniform and feature progression more aligned. Whether or not this will actually be Apple's strategy should become clear during this week's WWDC.
While we at AtAT are intrigued by this operating system for the next millenium, we are not thrilled at the prospect of Apple adopting a Microsoft-like versioning scheme, and we hope that "Mac OS 2000" is just a working title. But given that Apple adopted Microsoft's technical support pricing structure (and even referred to their new system as "Microsoft-like" in their press releases), we wouldn't be terribly surprised to find more and more Microsoftian things creeping slowly into the Apple way. Is it a gradual and insidious assimilation?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/9/98 episode: May 9, 1998: Apple's temporary bout of brain fever subsides, and a Quicktime distribution scheme that actually makes sense emerges after the recovery. Meanwhile, someone leaked something about a "Mac OS 2000," and Microsoft continues to lead the pack when it comes to brazen spin control...
Other scenes from that episode: 688: Common Sense Prevails (5/9/98) See? Making noise really can make a difference. MacInTouch reports that, following the massively negative feedback about Apple's Quicktime 3 licensing scheme, Apple plans to revise the Software Distribution Agreement to make the terms a little more palatable for licensees and end-users alike... 690: We Meant To Do That (5/9/98) Sometimes it's all in the way you spin things, and Microsoft is the uncontested master of shameless positive spin. The most recent example may be the FrontPage 98 bug which allows a user to delete his or her entire hard disk from within the FrontPage program itself; Microsoft has seen fit to describe this behavior as a "feature."...
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