Special Event 1999
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Thank you.
Thanks very much.
So let's...
Thank you very much.
It's a lot of applause when you guys do all the work.
We've got a great day today, but before we get started, I just wanted to mention something.
One of the great inspirations to me and a lot of the folks at Apple was Akio Morita at Sony.
He passed away this Sunday at the age of 78.
And while he was leading Sony, they invented the whole consumer electronics marketplace.
First transistor radio, Trinitron television, first consumer VCR, Walkman, audio CD.
The innovation that they brought to the marketplace was staggering.
And as he expressed his love for his...
...today, it's got 50 new features in it.
It is the best internet OS ever.
Ever.
And there's nine internet power tools that I'd like to talk about a little bit.
We're going to show you some of them.
The first one is Sherlock 2.
When we shipped Mac OS 8.5 a year ago, it had Sherlock 1 in it, and it was amazing.
You can type in natural language queries, like why is the sky blue.
Sherlock 1 will parse them and send them out to multiple search engines on the web simultaneously.
And as they send back results, Sherlock will dynamically rank them for relevance and present them in one window.
And you can click on any of the results and go directly to that web page and find what you're looking for.
for. So you can be searching 20, 30 web search engines simultaneously. It's amazing. We've
gone much further with Sherlock 2. The first thing we've done is Sherlock has a plugin
architecture, and very rapidly people have wrote over 200 plugins for Sherlock to not
just search the most popular web search sites, but even some of the more obscure ones. The
problem was you had to go down this long list and click which ones you were interested in
searching for a particular query.
We've now put channels on Sherlock 2.
So you can have groups of target sites,
but we've gone much further
because we've made channels not only for news and information,
but for people to go out and search the LDAP servers
and find you how to get in touch with people on the Internet.
And the biggest one, of course, is shopping.
E-commerce.
You can now type in what you're looking for
and search all of the e-commerce sites
and come back and have the items,
the price, and the availability.
You can sort by price, you can sort by availability, you can sort by merchant.
You click and it'll take you right to that page to buy the merchandise.
It's incredible.
And it is, so Sherlock is maturing beyond just your internet search detective to your
personal shopper on the internet.
It's astounding.
Second, multiple users.
How many of you have used a Mac at home or in the classroom or in a small business where
you're sharing it with other people and when you come back to your Mac, it isn't your Mac
anymore.
It's got somebody else's internet browser preference, their home page, home directory preference,
their home page preference, etc., etc., their desktop pattern.
And you have to reset everything back, and of course so do they when they get back to the Mac.
Well, now Macintosh keeps track of multiple users.
You log in with a password, and boom, all your settings and preferences are restored.
Also, you can keep your files private from other people and only let them see what you want them to see.
So multiple users.
Now, if you're going to log in with a password, though, wouldn't it be great if you never could forget your password?
You could use your voice.
We have voice print password in Mac OS 9.
You can just speak a phrase, and it lets you in.
Now, on the Internet, it seems like everything needs a password.
Every site, everything you do needs a password.
Every email server.
And you go nuts keeping track of all these passwords.
Sometimes you type in your favorite one you can remember easy,
and somebody's already got it.
Well, we've built in a feature, an amazing feature,
called the keychain into macOS 9.
You can take any passwords and put them on the keychain.
And then when you log in with your 1Password,
it activates all of them.
So if you need any of the other passwords, boom,
the OS takes care of it for you.
And these are stored in a very secure way.
So 1Password unlocks everything with the keychain.
Auto-updating.
We are constantly improving our operating system, and our third parties are constantly improving their drivers,
and we want you to have the most up-to-date operating system every second of every day.
We've built auto-updating into Macintosh OS 9, and so your OS can be, you can have the most current version of the OS every second.
single day. On the internet, when you're sending files around, wouldn't it be great if you could
encrypt them so you know that nobody can read them? Even on your home system or your work system,
wouldn't it be nice if you could encrypt certain files on your hard disk so you knew that they
were secure? That is now all built into OS 9 with a really simple UI and extremely industrial-strength
encryption technology. Internet file sharing. Now that you've got these nice encrypted files,
wouldn't it be nice to share them on the internet super easy? Well, you know how with Macintosh
on a local area network, you can set up file sharing and it's really easy, drag and drop.
That now all works completely over the internet. So you can have drag and drop file sharing
between Macintoshes around the world on the internet. And the same thing, in our design
In the publishing market, a lot of our customers use AppleScript to automate their workflows.
Extremely powerful things.
And those automations work on a single computer or over lots of computers on a local area network.
Well, now those computers don't have to be limited to the local area network.
You can have computers here, computers in New York, computers in Tokyo,
all working with AppleScript, all in a very secure way.
So that you can automate workflows around the globe on the Internet with Mac OS 9.
This is going to be huge with our publishing customers who have service bureaus and endpoints all around the world.
And lastly, network browser.
You can now go on the network and find Internet services and FTP sites and things like that
as easy as you can find printers on a local area network with the new network browser.
And so these are nine Internet power tools that are among the 50 new features of Mac OS 9.
And what I'd like to do now is invite Phil Schiller, our vice president of worldwide product marketing, up on stage to give us a demo.
Phil?
Thanks, everyone.
This is really great to be able to stand up here and show you a brand new OS and some
of the great features that are seen for the first time in macOS and really make macOS
9 the best internet OS.
We all live on the internet now every day and it's just going to improve the quality
of our life surfing the web.
I have here a Power Mac running Mac OS 9.
I'd like to show you just a few of those power tools
and how powerful and simple they are to use.
I have to start with the most powerful of all, Sherlock 2.
I'm sure many of you use Sherlock already today.
Most of our customers all use Sherlock now to search on the web
as one of their powerful tools.
And just like before, there are all these great plugins
for all the search engines around the web.
You can just type in a natural query,