Newsgroup: it.comp.macintosh
Titolo: MacRumors.com - Jan 6, 2004 - MWSF Expo Coverage

- Showing Video from Virginia Tech talking about the PowerMac G5
- Can't talk about the G5 without talking about Virginia Tech and their
Supercomputer.
- Steve Jobs. So, these are just a few of the apps that have taken us to
10,000 native OS X apps. Next up... the G5
- Microsoft Rep leaves stage
- MS Technology Guarantee Program. Of you buy a copy of Office 10, you get a
free upgrade to Office 2004 when available in the spring
- Demo of Office complete.
- Can share projects with others. On a server/idisk.
- New feature that's integrated across the office suite. Project Center. Can
see how your project comes along - overview and other views. Contacts,
files, appointments, mail items etc...
- Demoing Excel. Now this is a great looking spreadsheet - but how will it
look when it prints? New view in excel called Page Layout view. Can still
edit it directly in this view. "Fit To" feature which automatically fits the
spreadsheet on the right number of pages.
- Now can record audio while you type.
- Also new too 2004. If you stop using the toolbar pallete, it become
transparent (Quartz) so you can see your document well
- Showing Mac-first features. Launching Word. Now all of us take notes. This
is an example of how you would do it in an older version. Word Notebook View
demo. Makes it easy to take notes and generates regular word files. Looks
like a notebook. Quicksearch feature at top of the screen. Just type in the
word, and the section tabs on the right had side of the screen higlight
blue... to let you quickly find the information you need. Call attention to
specific notes with a Note Flag feature.
- Demoing Office 2004
- Microsoft: 20 years of great software for the Mac. Announcing Office 2004
for Mac.
- Microsoft Office 2004 Announced today. Introducing microsoft rep
- FCE 2.0: $299. $99 upgrade. Available today.
- FCE 2.0: RT Extreme Performance, Adjustments are instant. Over 200 filters
and effects. Realtime color correction.
- Advanced realtime audio tools, optimized for G5 and Panther, composite up
to 5 DV streams in real time. Use filters and transitions etc... Now demoing
FCE 2.0
- We've got one too - Final Cut Express 2.0 launching today - pro video
editing for everyone
- 10,000 native apps on OS X. And some neat new apps today. Macromedia
Director MX, Bioncle, Net Vault.
- This is the fastest OS transition on record that we know of.
- "We made it" refering to the transition from OS 9 to OS X. This is not
easy.
- We now have over 9.3 million active Mac OS X users. Approaching 40% of
installed base... which is huge.
- People loving Expose. Reviewing iChat AV, new Finder.
- Most advanced OS again, Microsoft copying again (laughter)
- Now... onto Mac OS X
- Giving out 1984 poster
- "20 Years" We are going to make something of this year. Some incredible
new products. Some wonderful things that will be announced over the year.
It's going to be a great 20th anniversary year.
- "We couldn't help ourselves" :) Asks the created of the ad to stand up.
- Days before we introduced the Mac, we ran an ad... (1984). It was only run
one time on paid television. It's known as one of the best ads ever made.
Playing 1984 now at the Keynote.
- 1st to bring 32 bit computing, now first to tbring 64bit computing
- We had to teach people what a mouse was, pointing and clicking. People had
to get used to it... even some developers we know
- Talking about the "boiler plate" from the bottom of the press releases.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution etc... and "reinvented" the
personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Talking about how the Mac
changed everything 20 years ago... with it's Graphical User Interface.
Literally a decade ahead of everyone else
- Steve Jobs on stage. Welcome to MW 2004. We've got over 60,000 views
connected by broadband from over 1100 countries. We've got some fun things
to announce this morning.
- Starting...
- Still playing Elvis music. More panning shots of the audience
- Apple Logos on the stage. Two monitors/computers
- Lots of people with PowerBooks in crowd.
- "Welcome to the 2004 MacWorld Keynote Event". Please turn off cell
phones/pagers...
- Moscone Center, CA. It's about to start
- Shots of crowd, large audience, Phil Schiller being interviewed
- Web stream is live
- Apple online Stores Closed


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