Apple Computers has announced it will be donating $10 U.S. to charity from every MacOS 8 sale before Jan. 15, 1998. The money will go to one of the following charities: The Humane Society of the United States, Second Harvest Food Bank or The Make-A-Wish Foundation. All contributions will be made in the name of the consumers who participate in the upgrade program.
In August, MacOS 8 sales were more than Windows 95 sales. Take a look at the graph in this report — it shows Mac OS as the only OS with an improving market share. Not a bad little result.
Actually, next year looks like a good year for operating systems. MacOS 8.1 and Rhapsody Premier later this year or early next year, followed by Windows98 and WindowsNT 5.0 in the middle of the year (NT 5's delay has just been announced), with Rhapsody Unified and MacOS 9 to follow mid to late '98 as well. All in all, six operating system releases in one year (well, at least four — Apple's operating system releases are still on time but Microsoft keep delaying theirs).
Speaking of Rhapsody, Apple has released a beta of The Blue Box MacOS compatibility module for Rhapsody. Apple was not supposed to release a version of the Blue Box to the public until Rhapsody Premier, so it actually appears as though some portions of Rhapsody at least are ahead of schedule.
Performance Enhancement
Modem Doubling Centre is a site that deals with ways to increase the speed of your modem. It is a very new site and at the moment is still in the development, but is still worth a look for general information.
Just A little Tidbit
This was posted on the Evangelist e-mail list by Peter Kemp.
I let my nine-year-old daughter use my old IIsi to play all her games on. A couple of months ago the NEC cd drive died and she's been without the ability to play. Yesterday (Nov. 16) I saw an ad for a $99 external CD at Fry's and decided to get it for her machine. We went and bought the drive and got home just in time for me to see the kickoff of the Dallas/Washington game. She wanted to get the drive installed and I wanted to watch the game so I told her to install it herself, figuring that she could get it unpacked and close to being installed and I could complete the job during a commercial. Ten minutes later I hear her shouting from upstairs "got it working, thanks Dad!"
I'd like to see a nine-year-old do that on a Wintel machine.
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