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...Java programming language, which the company pitches as a way to write new kinds of programs that work best on the World Wide Web. Sun might be able to use Java, which does not depend on any one computing system for its success, to reinvigorate the Macintosh line...
Apple faces several crises. First, its operating software is very old. Most customers believe that Microsoft's Windows 95, available since last August, now matches the general capabilities of Apple's System 7.5. The last major overhaul of the Macintosh operating system--System 7.0, which laid the groundwork for the current version--was late when it was delivered more than five years ago and even then just barely met expectations. The next major overhaul of the Macintosh system, code-named Copland, is due later this year. But many industry experts aren't sure if Apple will be able to deliver...
...common wisdom is that a computing innovation like Macintosh cannot survive without some magical but undefined percentage of the overall market. And Apple has never had that magic number. It once sold about 12% of all the computers marketed around the world. Now it sells less than 9%, and its machines seem to be disappearing from offices (except in the publishing business). Without market share, the worry goes, software companies will not write programs that entice more users, and market share will shrink further. Such uncertainties overshadow Apple's success last year at introducing an entire new line of computers...
...self-consciously maverick firm that lived to be different (not entirely dissimilar from Sun Microsystems today). Its idiosyncrasies created a revolution. The benefit of its attitude started with the Apple II, which defined the fundamental elements of a personal computer: hard drive, monitor, key board. Then Apple invented Macintosh, and desktop publishing. The company was a premium maker of first-class personal computers. When Apple succeeded, it made lots of money but saw its market share shrink drastically. Eventually the shrinkage caught up with it, and profits dwindled...
Symantec produces two of the best anti-virus programs on the market. Symantec Anti-Virus for Macintosh (SAM) and Norton Anti-Virus 3.0 for Windows are among the top programs for those two operating systems...