“For those of us who have watched Now Software go from a thriving software company to a floundering mess over the past few years, this is not entirely surprising. NightHawk [Now X] had reached legendary vaporware status and it appeared that it would never really come out in a full working form,” Sande reports. “Many Now Up-To-Date and Contact users simply gave up and moved to other packages such as the popular Daylite from Marketcircle. Without an iPhone companion app, Now Up-To-Date and Contact and NightHawk simply became irrelevant to most Mac users.”
Full article, with Now Software’s John Wallace’s farewell letter, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mr. Reeee” for the heads up.]
On my early Macs… (LC for example) Now Utilities was THE productivity enhancer of the day. Funky menu mods, “super boomerang” which is now seen in Default Folder, and many others… just amazing stuff. I’m tipping my glass to the once great NOW software… here here!
Same here!
Farewell to an old Mac software house!
Best luck to the former employees.
@ Mike
Me too, Now was great on my LCII maxed out with 10 megs of Ram!!
Alternate headline: No “wow” ends Now.
It’s sad to see, but Now was never able to make a complete transition to Mac OS X.
Now Contact and Now Up-to-Date were always a bit on the kludgy side and their inability to bring out a modernized version, Now X, was probably the killer, like a slow-acting poison.
A bit of MacHistory dies.
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It is a sad thing to see them go. They were a long time provider of a feature-rich, solid product, an integrated, networked, cross-platform contacts and events manager when nothing quite like it was avaialble, certainly not on the Mac.
Perhaps there is some truth to what Mr Reeee says, and I do agree that the last several years saw little growth in features that would encourage udating.
I think that entourage on Windows and Mac’s addressbook, killed the need for their product except for high end users.
Good luck to all the people who worked there.
BusyCal is, without a doubt, the best calendaring program for the Mac. It does everything that any individual or business would ever want from a calendar program.
Note – Now Software died in 1997 when it was acquired by quacomm the present undead version was just a way to wring cash out of old technology that was really left to fester and die.
Maybe Palm should buy them.?
If I’m not mistaken, there was some AWESOME easter eggs in Now software in the early days.
Sad to hear that they’re dead.
Great, great software in the past.
I’m still mourning for “Dynodex”