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...Aqua-Man Combats Campaign Doldrums...
...desert--where he founded the doomed NeXT computer system and bought the successful Pixar Animation Studios--filled him with so many great ideas that the Apple he's resurrecting could end up being stronger than the Apple he quit. The effects of his sabbatical are especially apparent in Aqua, the front end to the forthcoming operating-system upgrade known...
...works the way it's supposed to when it's delivered in early summer, I might go back to using a Mac at home. I say "if" because reporters were only permitted to see Aqua demoed under the steely-eyed supervision of Apple's p.r. department. No taking it home to crash test it under real working conditions. So it hardly seems fair to compare it with Millennium, Microsoft's upcoming revision of Windows 98, which I've been running on three machines for the past six weeks...
...truth is, Millennium won't be winning any prizes at Cannes. At this point in its development--it's also scheduled to ship by summer--it has no flash and little innovation. Where Aqua has rethought the way Mac users interact with applications--using something called a "dock" that behaves like the Windows task bar, only with intelligence and flair--Millennium looks almost identical to Windows 98. The main differences are under the hood. One thing I liked: bugs that plagued my home network magically disappeared after installing Millennium, thanks to its emphasis on home networking. But while Millennium...
...learn more about Apple's Aqua and OS X, go to apple.com Got questions for Josh? You can e-mail him at jquit@well.com