Re: [WinMac] MacWorld Expo Report - Something for everyone!


Michael bartosh(bartosh[at]apple.tamu.edu)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:44:00 -0400


>>
>> MacOS STUFF:
>>
>> System 8.7 (Sonata) was renamed by Steve to "MacOS 9" That means we're
>>going to have to pay $99 for this set of bug fixes.
>
>As Leonard Rosenthal said, it is a LOT more than bug fixes! (drat those
>NDAs). Suffice it to say, $99 will not be a bad price for it.

To hell w/ NDA's, there are several features that have been made
public- the roaming profile/ secure multi user login being one-
Sherlock II being another- and finally there is a huge focus on
security- from the encrypted keychain (using an elyptical algorithm
produced at Apple) to the already released w/ netboot encryption tool.

Wish this could go out to all the other places that list went...

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