PRESS RELEASE March 21, 2001
Over 350 applications for Mac OS X are shipping today, with hundreds more coming by this summer. More than 10,000 developer organizations around the world are working on over 20,000 Mac OS X applications, including 4D, Aladdin Systems, Alias/Wavefront, Avid, Connectix, Dantz, Digidesign, EarthLink, FileMaker, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, MYOB, Palm, Sun, Symantec, and Thursby Software Systems.
  • Dynamic memory management, eliminating “out of memory” messages or need to adjust the memory for applications
  • Advanced power management, so that PowerBook® and iBook™ systems wake from sleep instantly
  • QuickTime 5, shipping for the first time as an integrated feature of Mac OS X
  • Automatic networking, allowing users to get on the Internet using any available network connection, without adjusting settings
  • A single interface to easily manage all network and Internet connections, including direct support for DSL systems that require PPPoE connectivity
  • Full PDF support and PDF integration into the operating system, so that Mac OS X applications can generate standard PDF documents to be shared with any platform
  • Direct support for TrueType, Type 1 and OpenType fonts, and an intuitive and flexible interface for managing fonts and groups of fonts
  • More than $1,000 of the best fonts available today, including Baskerville, Herman Zapf's Zapfino, Futura, and Optima; as well as the highest-quality Japanese fonts available, in the largest character set ever on a personal computer
  • iTools integration into Mac OS X, for direct access to iDisk free Internet storage in the Finder and Open/Save dialog boxes, and free IMAP mail for Mac.com email accounts
  • Built in support for popular HP, Canon, and Epson printers
  • Easy to administer multi-user environment, with access privileges to keep documents secure
  • Powerful web development tools and technologies such as WebDAV, XML, Apache and QuickTime
  • BSD UNIX services including popular shells, Perl and FTP
  • Support for symmetric multi-processing, so that on dual-processor Power Mac G4 systems, both processors are used automatically to deliver up to twice the productivity
  • File system and network security including support for Kerberos
  • Support for Java 2 Standard Edition built directly into Mac OS X, giving customers access to cross platform applications

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