New Breakthrough Features Extend Apple’s Leadership in Software Innovation

WWDC 2004, SAN FRANCISCO—June 28, 2004—Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X version 10.4 “Tiger,” the fifth major version of Mac OS X that will ship in the first half of 2005, extending Apple’s leadership in software innovation. Tiger continues Apple’s blazing pace of innovation with more than 150 breakthrough new features including Spotlight, a revolutionary way to instantly find any file, document or information created by any application on the Mac®; Safari™ RSS, a new version of Apple’s acclaimed web browser that incorporates instant access to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data feeds on the web; Dashboard, a dazzling new way to instantly access a new collection of accessory “Widgets;” and a new version of Apple’s iChat instant messaging client with the industry’s first multi-person audio and video conferencing in a stunning 3D interface.

“With OS X Apple has become, once again, the industry innovator in operating systems and Tiger will further widen the gap,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Others are now following OS X’s taillights, and Tiger will make it even harder for them to ever catch up.”

Spotlight is Apple’s new lightning fast way to find any file, document or information created by any application on the Mac. Much like users can instantly find songs in iTunes by their name, artist or album, Spotlight enables users to instantly find just about anything—including emails, presentations, images, appointments and Microsoft Office documents—then automatically organizes and displays the results by kind, time or people. Spotlight technology also powers Smart Folders in the Finder™, Smart Mailboxes in Mail and Smart Groups in Address Book that work like Smart Playlists in iTunes to automatically keep a user's information organized and updated.

Safari RSS, a new version of Apple’s acclaimed web browser uses the emerging RSS Internet standard to provide instant access to the most current information from leading sites such as The New York Times, BusinessWeek and the BBC. Safari RSS automatically discovers an RSS enabled site and displays a special icon, which when pressed instantly transforms Safari into a full featured RSS reader displaying the discovered RSS feed. With Safari RSS, users can easily create their own personal news clipping service with up to the minute information from several RSS feeds merged into one easy-to-read interface.

Dashboard offers users instant access to a new class of accessory applications called “Widgets.” Built on Apple’s Expose technology introduced in Panther, Dashboard provides fingertip access to everyday tools and information such as stock quotes, webcams, calendars and calculators. Tiger includes several Widgets and provides a rich developer environment for developers to extend Dashboard with third party Widgets.

iChat in Tiger supports the new industry standard H.264 video codec for dramatically better picture quality with no increase in bandwidth. In addition, the new iChat adds multi-way audio and video conferencing, so that users can audio conference with up to 10 people and video conference with up to three other people using a stunning new 3D interface.

Additional new features in Tiger include:

• Core Image and Core Video provide the foundation for new image and video processing applications, building on the success of Core Audio which is leading the next generation of innovative audio application development;
• QuickTime® support for the next-generation MPEG-4 video codec H.264 delivers incredible scalability across the entire bandwidth spectrum, from 3G mobile media to High Definition broadcast and beyond;
• Tiger can natively run 64-bit processes for database, engineering and scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory while still running side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications;
• .Mac Sync using a completely new Sync engine in Tiger ensures that .Mac subscribers can synchronize their contacts, bookmarks, email preferences and calendar across multiple machines;
• Automator, an innovative easy-to-use application that automates simple, complex, or repetitive tasks without requiring the user to write scripts;
• major advances to the open standards UNIX-based foundation including an updated state-of-the-art kernel with improved SMP scalability, 64-bit virtual memory, modernized network services and Xgrid, Apple's easy-to-use distributed computing software;
• improved Windows compatibility that uses powerful open standards-based networking technologies to make it even easier for Mac OS X users to access a Windows-based home directory and authenticate against Microsoft’s Active Directory; and
• Xcode™ 2, the latest version of Apple’s powerful suite of developer tools, designed to make it even easier and faster to build innovative Mac OS X applications.

Pricing & Availability
Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger” will be available in the first half of 2005 through the Apple Store®, at Apple’s retail stores and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $129 (US). Users with a .Mac membership can take full advantage of all the innovative new features in Tiger to synchronize their information between multiple Macs. More information on Tiger can be found at www.apple.com.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

“Tiger” Server Includes Support for 64-bit Applications, Weblog Server, iChat Server & Windows NT Migration Tools

WWDC 2004, SAN FRANCISCO—June 28, 2004—Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X Server version 10.4 “Tiger,” the next major release of Apple’s award-winning, UNIX-based server operating system that makes it easy to deploy popular open source solutions for Mac®, Windows and Linux clients. The fifth major release of Mac OS X Server, Tiger Server continues Apple’s blazing pace of innovation to deliver over 200 new features including native support for 64-bit applications, ideal for high performance computing; Weblog Server that makes hosting a weblog as simple as checking a box; iChat Server to deploy private, encrypted communications within an organization; and migration tools to make it easy to upgrade from legacy Windows servers to Mac OS X Server.

“With more than 200 new features, Tiger Server is the best release of Mac OS X Server ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Tiger Server combines over 100 of the best solutions from the open source world with Apple’s legendary ease-of-use to create the easiest way to deploy powerful open source server solutions.”

For the first time, Tiger Server can natively run 64-bit processes for database, engineering and scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory while still running side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications. Combined with Apple’s Xserve® G5 server hardware, Tiger Server offers an affordable, easy-to-manage solution for high performance computing.

Weblog Server is fully compatible with Safari RSS in Mac OS X Tiger and makes publishing a weblog as simple as checking a box in Server Admin preferences. Weblog Server is based on the popular open source project ‘Blojsom’ and is fully integrated into Tiger Server with an easy-to-use interface, Kerberos authentication support and LDAP integration. Weblog Server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable themes and users can post entries using the built in Web-based functionality or with weblog clients that support XML-RPC or the Atom API.

Tiger Server includes a brand new iChat server designed for organizations that need to keep internal communication private. Organizations can define their own namespace, use SSL/TSL encryption to ensure privacy and Kerberos for authentication. Tiger Server’s iChat server works with Apple’s popular iChat conferencing software in Mac OS X Tiger and is compatible with open source Jabber clients available on Windows, Linux and popular PDAs.

Tiger Server has also been updated with tools that make migrating from Windows-based servers easy. Administrators can now migrate the user and group account information from an existing Windows Primary Domain Controller automatically into Open Directory. Tiger Server can then take over as the Primary Domain Controller for Windows clients and even host Windows users’ home directories, group folders, roaming profiles and shared printers.

Other new features in Tiger Server include:

• Mobile Home Directories that give mobile users the best of both worlds—access to files and preferences while on the road with the user’s home directory centrally stored and managed on the network;
• a Software Update Server that lets system administrators host their own proxy/cache server to control the availability of Apple’s software updates for Mac OS X Tiger and Tiger Server systems;
• Access Control Lists that provide a more flexible permissions model that gives administrators better control over files, folders and network services, making it easier to set up collaborative environments;
• Internet Gateway Setup Assistant to make it easy for small business and home office users to set up complex network services, including DHCP, NAT, DNS, Port Routing, Firewall and VPN services; and
• Xgrid™ 1.0, Apple’s easy-to-use clustering software is integrated into Tiger Server to make it easy for scientists and researchers to build a distributed computing cluster that supports up to 128 agents, up to 10,000 queued jobs and up to 10,000 tasks per job.

Pricing & Availability
Mac OS X Server version 10.4 “Tiger” will be available in the first half of 2005 through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple’s retail stores and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for a 10-client edition and $999 (US) for an unlimited-client edition. At the time of release, current subscribers to the Apple Maintenance Program will receive Tiger Server as part of their service agreement. More information on Tiger Server can be found at http://www.apple.com/server

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

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