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In May 1998 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), interim CEO Steve Jobs outlined the company's three software priorities as the following: the Operating System (MacOS), QuickTime, and Java. Since then we have heard a lot about the plan for MacOS. To summarize, the company would continue to release the MacOS 8 family (currently at 8.6), MacOS X server was released at the beginning of this year, and MacOS X is still expected early next year.
On July 21 of this year, during the keynote address at Macworld New York, Jobs announced that the latest version of MacOS 8.x is planned for release as MacOS 9.0 in October. He demonstrated some of the operating system's new features including the new version of Sherlock, the Mac search engine.
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If you like to purchase online, you're going to love the new Sherlock. One of the new features lets you search the net (including auction sites) for items you want - and then sort them by price. Jobs's keynote also focused on Apple's continuing profitability and low inventory, as well as on the new Tangerine and Blueberry consumer portable iBooks, the AirPort wireless networking, QuickTime 4, and QuickTime TV. Jobs views QuickTime, Apple's multimedia engine and data format for movies, as being 'core technology for Apple,' and pointed out that there have been 10 million downloads of the QuickTime 4 player in the last few months. It seems that the keynote would have been a perfect time for Jobs to mention Apple's QuickTime for Java technology. I'll come back to this in a minute.
QuickTime for Java can exist only on platforms that Apple develops QuickTime for, and right now, that means Mac and Windows. On the other hand, if Apple ever did port QuickTime to Linux, bringing QTJ along for the ride probably wouldn’t be hard.