AAPL product announcements resume , Quicktime & Appleshare vs MSFT
Appleshare transfers files faster than NT - 3 X faster :
" ''Like Mac OS 8.5, AppleShare IP 6.1 is a must-have upgrade for Macintosh Servers,'' said Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of worldwide product marketing.
''With the integration of Sherlock support and data transfer performance on Mac clients that's up to three times faster than Windows NT, AppleShare IP 6.1 is our easiest-to-use and most powerful server software ever.''
biz.yahoo.com
Plus QuickTime with non-MSFT proprietary files , new features :
" ... a new version of QuickTime that developers said will soon turn the popular multimedia technology into a cross-platform audio and video authoring and playback system unmatched by rivals Microsoft and RealNetworks Inc.
... QuickTime developers who have wanted to broadcast their content live on the Web turned to proprietary streaming media file formats from Microsoft and RealNetworks.
That may change with the new QuickTime software, which, sources said, is based on an industry-standard streaming media protocol, the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). "
dailynews.yahoo.com
Rival MSFT ? Wonder if a "OS open standards" harpoon was firmly implanted by Tevie in partner MSFT at the DOJ ?
Jim K. |
