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BILL GATES Finally unveils Windows 2000-- better, more stable. Could be last victory before DOJ carves his OS...
...OS X 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...
...Millennium handles software conflicts is interesting--especially compared with OS X's new approach. Have you ever installed a program only to find out that Mr. Computer doesn't like it? That happened to me recently with Quake3. When I installed the game, it apparently screwed up the driver for my sound card, silencing my PC. I tried uninstalling the program, but that didn't help. I finally had to reinstall the sound-card driver. Millennium behaves like a time machine so you can easily roll your system back to the day before whatever trouble you're experiencing began. Naturally...
...does OS X handle software problems? When you try to install a program that conflicts with any other program, the Mac simply won't allow you to run it. Presumably, OS X users will never suffer from software conflicts again. Sure sounds cool. If it works...
...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