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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>Apple Previews Mac OS X "Tiger"</h1></div>
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<p>Apple Previews Mac OS X "Tiger"</p>
<p>New Breakthrough Features Extend Apple's Leadership in Software Innovation</p>
<p>WWDC 2004, SAN FRANCISCO-June 28, 2004-Apple today previewed Mac OS X<br />
version 10.4 "Tiger," the fifth major version of Mac OS X that will ship in<br />
the first half of 2005, extending Apple's leadership in software<br />
innovation. Tiger continues Apple's blazing pace of innovation with more<br />
than 150 breakthrough new features including Spotlight, a revolutionary way<br />
to instantly find any file, document or information created by any<br />
application on the Mac; Safari(tm) RSS, a new version of Apple's acclaimed<br />
web browser that incorporates instant access to RSS (Really Simple<br />
Syndication) data feeds on the web; Dashboard, a dazzling new way to<br />
instantly access a new collection of accessory "Widgets;" and a new version<br />
of Apple's iChat instant messaging client with the industry's first<br />
multi-person audio and video conferencing in a stunning 3D interface.</p>
<p>"With OS X Apple has become, once again, the industry innovator in<br />
operating systems and Tiger will further widen the gap," said Steve Jobs,<br />
Apple's CEO. "Others are now following OS X's taillights, and Tiger will<br />
make it even harder for them to ever catch up."</p>
<p>Spotlight is Apple's new lightning fast way to find any file, document or<br />
information created by any application on the Mac. Much like users can<br />
instantly find songs in iTunes by their name, artist or album, Spotlight<br />
enables users to instantly find just about anything-including emails,<br />
presentations, images, appointments and Microsoft Office documents-then<br />
automatically organizes and displays the results by kind, time or people.<br />
Spotlight technology also powers Smart Folders in the Finder(tm), Smart<br />
Mailboxes in Mail and Smart Groups in Address Book that work like Smart<br />
Playlists in iTunes to automatically keep a user's information organized<br />
and updated.</p>
<p>Safari RSS, a new version of Apple's acclaimed web browser uses the<br />
emerging RSS Internet standard to provide instant access to the most<br />
current information from leading sites such as The New York Times,<br />
BusinessWeek and the BBC. Safari RSS automatically discovers an RSS enabled<br />
site and displays a special icon, which when pressed instantly transforms<br />
Safari into a full featured RSS reader displaying the discovered RSS feed.<br />
With Safari RSS, users can easily create their own personal news clipping<br />
service with up to the minute information from several RSS feeds merged<br />
into one easy-to-read interface.</p>
<p>Dashboard offers users instant access to a new class of accessory<br />
applications called "Widgets." Built on Apple's Expose technology<br />
introduced in Panther, Dashboard provides fingertip access to everyday<br />
tools and information such as stock quotes, webcams, calendars and<br />
calculators. Tiger includes several Widgets and provides a rich developer<br />
environment for developers to extend Dashboard with third party Widgets.</p>
<p>iChat in Tiger supports the new industry standard H.264 video codec for<br />
dramatically better picture quality with no increase in bandwidth. In<br />
addition, the new iChat adds multi-way audio and video conferencing, so<br />
that users can audio conference with up to 10 people and video conference<br />
with up to three other people using a stunning new 3D interface.</p>
<p>Additional new features in Tiger include:</p>
<p>* Core Image and Core Video provide the foundation for new image and video<br />
processing applications, building on the success of Core Audio which is<br />
leading the next generation of innovative audio application development;</p>
<p>* QuickTime support for the next-generation MPEG-4 video codec H.264<br />
delivers incredible scalability across the entire bandwidth spectrum, from<br />
3G mobile media to High Definition broadcast and beyond;</p>
<p>* Tiger can natively run 64-bit processes for database, engineering and<br />
scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance<br />
unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory while still running<br />
side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications;</p>
<p>* .Mac Sync using a completely new Sync engine in Tiger ensures that .Mac<br />
subscribers can synchronize their contacts, bookmarks, email preferences<br />
and calendar across multiple machines;</p>
<p>* Automator, an innovative easy-to-use application that automates simple,<br />
complex, or repetitive tasks without requiring the user to write scripts;</p>
<p>* major advances to the open standards UNIX-based foundation including an<br />
updated state-of-the-art kernel with improved SMP scalability, 64-bit<br />
virtual memory, modernized network services and Xgrid, Apple's easy-to-use<br />
distributed computing software;</p>
<p>* improved Windows compatibility that uses powerful open standards-based<br />
networking technologies to make it even easier for Mac OS X users to access<br />
a Windows-based home directory and authenticate against Microsoft's Active<br />
Directory; and</p>
<p>* Xcode(tm) 2, the latest version of Apple's powerful suite of developer<br />
tools, designed to make it even easier and faster to build innovative Mac<br />
OS X applications.</p>
<p>Pricing & Availability</p>
<p>Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" will be available in the first half of 2005<br />
through the Apple Store, at Apple's retail stores and through Apple<br />
Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $129 (US). Users with<br />
a .Mac membership can take full advantage of all the innovative new<br />
features in Tiger to synchronize their information between multiple Macs.<br />
More information on Tiger can be found at <a href="http://www.apple.com" title="www.apple.com">www.apple.com</a>.</p>
<p>Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple<br />
II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.<br />
Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to<br />
students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world<br />
through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.</p>
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