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Article: Time for a new OS?(includes related articles comparing the Be and Mac operating systems and on Mac's OS strategy) (Company Business and Marketing)(Cover Story)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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Mac OSgot you down? Considering NT? Should you wait for the Be OS?
Desperate times, desperate measures. That's what Apple faced this fall, after its Copland operating system strategy fell apart (see "Mac OS 8: Back to Square One," Macworld, November 1996), leaving the Mac with no significantly new OS in sight for several years at a time of crushing competition from Microsoft's Windows 95 and NT.
Into this period of uncertainty comes a potential white knight, a new OS for the Mac developed by a group of Apple refugees at Be, Inc., led by former Apple product-development chief Jean-Louis Gassee. The Be OS provides many of the features promised for Copland (the ...