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...took Apple Computer chairman Gilbert Amelio 2 1/2 hours to say it, but Apple devotees last week finally got what they'd been waiting for: assurances that despite rumors to the contrary, the next generation of Macintosh computers will run most of the old software. The bad news is that it will be at least a year before the new system, code-named Rhapsody, is ready for public release...
...into its Windows operating system, a process that will culminate with the "Active Desktop" planned for Windows 97, due out in a few months. Critics see a pattern of Microsoft's playing hardball to make life difficult for competing operating systems and applications: Microsoft Word has been buggy on Macintosh operating systems, users have found it tricky to make Netscape their default browser when going back and forth from Windows to the Microsoft Network, and application developers have complained that they don't get the full specs for new releases of Windows as quickly as Microsoft's own developers...
American Indians harvested vast quantities of buffalo by stampeding them off cliffs. Because these buffalo ran blindly ahead, they unwittingly followed the rest of the herd to their death. Your recent guide contained no reference to the Macintosh family of computers and contributed to the Windows herd mentality. Shouldn't you ensure that people have their heads up and eyes forward, so they will not run mindlessly off the cliff? GUY KAWASAKI, Apple Fellow Apple Computer Inc. Cupertino, California...
...include clam chowder, a steak bomb, chicken wings, french fries, turkey meatloaf, broccoli souffle, Rice Krispies treats and ice cream. Then, for the next eight hours, you are fed several bananas and lots of apples: green apples, red apples and yellow apples, spotted and solid apples, Red Delicious and Macintosh. Sometimes you are forced to digest six apples in an evening. You would revolt...
...whatever little application programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time you add a keyboard and a monitor, however, the cost approaches $1,000--almost as much as a low-end Macintosh or Windows PC would cost...