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Macworld Expo - New York 2000
August 2000 Macworld Expo - New York 2000 Apple Computer announced New "Pro" Keyboard and Mouse, Multi-processor G4's, an expanded iMac range, iMovie 2.0, the Macintosh Cube and new monitors including the Apple Cinema Display.
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Apple Stores to Merge
August 2000 Early in July, seven of Australia's major Apple Channel partners released a proposal to merge operations, to "capitalise on buoyant and increasing market share of Apple Computer in Australia". With the merger of Choice Connections, DesignWyse, GM Computer, Mac's Place, Manning Computers, Next Byte and Status Graph, we will see the creation of the largest Apple Channel Partner, with over 30 retails locations, along with a significant portion of the professional market division and Apple Education Centres.
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Microsoft announces new features for Office 2001
June 2000 Microsoft announced some great news for Macintosh users - Microsoft Office 2001 Macintosh Edition (Office) will be available later this year.
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DOJ ask for Microsoft to be spilt
June 2000 The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the 19 US states who successfully sued Microsoft over Anti-Trust violations have requested that the US court spilt Microsoft in to two separate companies.
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How "I Love You" virus affects Macintosh Users
June 2000 In the first week of May a new virus, "I Love You", was released that received a large amount of attention in the regular media. What most of the media didn't point out was how it only affects Windows users and that Macintosh users were largely unaffected. Here are a couple of emails I posted to AUSOM FirstClass and the Macs and Graphics mailing lists about this virus.
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Macworld Tokyo - February 2000.
April 2000 The place to be on February 16, 2000 was Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe, Japan. This was the place were Steve Jobs announced many of the hardware upgrades that we expected to hear about at MacWorld San Francisco in January, plus a couple of surprises.
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Eudora Pro v4.3.1 released for "free"
April 2000 Eudora Pro v4.3.1 is released for "free" and for a limited time there is a special offer to purchase v4.2.
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Cable wars heat up!
April 2000 Telstra restructure pricing on thier cable connections.
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Optus announces new cable internet service - Optus@Home
Feburary 2000 Optus Internet recently announced pricing for its' new Cable Internet Service, "Optus@Home". It is available for as low as $59.95 per month UNLIMITED traffic and time. This is VERY cheap for a high speed, high traffic service that is permanently connected (particularly when you factor in phone line rental, each telephone call, annual subscriptions, and then traffic allocations and speed restrictions)
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Macworld Expo - San Francisco 2000
February 2000 Mac OS X previewed, AppleWorks 6.0, Alliance with EarthLink ISP, new look website and permament CEO.
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