Apple today announced it expects to deliver over two million copies of Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger” by the end of this week, including copies sold at retail, copies delivered under maintenance agreements and copies bundled with Mac systems shipped, making Tiger Apple’s fastest selling OS release ever. Developer support for Tiger is also setting new records with hundreds of developers including Microsoft and Adobe announcing support for Tiger. To date third party developers have released more than 400 Dashboard widgets, 550 Automator actions and 40 Spotlight plug-ins for Tiger.
“The response to Tiger is off the charts,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO in the press release. “Critics are raving, customers are delighted and developers are creating hundreds of widgets and applications that take advantage of Tiger’s incredible innovations like Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator.”
“With the new technologies in Tiger, we worked closely with Apple to ensure that Office 2004 customers would benefit by making it even easier to search, share and manage information,” said Roz Ho, general manager of the Macintosh Business Unit, Microsoft Corporation in the press release. “Whether searching for an Office 2004 document using Spotlight or synchronizing data in Entourage to another supported device, the innovation in Tiger means Office for Mac users will be more productive now and in the future.”
“Tiger is an excellent release and will be relied on by millions of Adobe customers who, as creative professionals, change the way the world looks every day,” said Shantanu Narayen, president and chief operating officer at Adobe in the press release. “The combination of Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Tiger delivers a powerful design and publishing platform that will accelerate creative workflows worldwide.”
Tiger delivers more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to instantly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.
More info about Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger here.
Nice job, Apple. I am waiting on my new iMac to get here so that I can play with Tiger.
Wow, this is big news. I guess from the other news, the lads at Intel are so worried that the pentium is at the end of the line that they came pleading to Mac to save them. After all IBM would not give them the RISC technology of the PowerPC but Apple might.
I think that is a good move, Motorola and IBM became feet draggers and Intel desparately needs something to compete with AMD.
Enter Steve Jobs the savior. Man if that little company called Apple wasn’t around everyone (100%) would be using Microsoft. Thank goodness for Apple.
Now it’s been a while, wonder if I made first post.
Gee, and I was taking my time. Way to go JadisOne, ya beat me.
Road Warrior, I got lucky. It’s not too surprising that this very nice tidbit of information got swept under a rug in folks’ minds. A quarter of a billion dollars in operating system sales is definitely not bad at all.