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Snow Leopard - 2009/06/09 00:45
Came across this today re Snow Leopard that maybe interesting:-
The company also is challenging Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 7 with an updated Mac operating system. The software, called Snow Leopard, will debut in September, the month before Windows 7 comes out. It will cost $29 to upgrade to the system.
“Apple is going for the jugular with Snow Leopard,” said Hakim Kriout, a portfolio manager at New York-based Grigsby & Associates, which owns Apple shares. “Apple has lowered the price tag of their laptops to address criticism of their machines being overpriced.”
Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, took a swipe at Microsoft’s Vista operating system, saying the company “dug quite a big hole” with the software. Windows 7 system is the “same old technology,” he said at the event. Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Snow Leopard, which takes up half the disk space of the previous version, will include a new version of the QuickTime video software. Snow Leopard also comes with Apple’s new Safari 4 Web browser and built-in support for Microsoft’s Exchange e- mail system. The new version of Safari is available for Windows and Mac machines today.
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