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Microsoft will release its next version of Windows with some cool new features, including the ability to search for files on your PC during the holiday season 2006. Mac users don't have to wait 19 months for that feature. The highly anticipated $129 upgrade includes more than 200 new features, including Apple's Spotlight search technology, which searches the Mac computer's hard disk drive to find documents, e-mails, pictures, music and other files, similar to the way Google searches the Internet and Dashboard, a collection of Internet-enabled programs that Apple calls Widgets to give Mac users instant information on airline flights, movie times, stock prices and other data.
"Features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way millions of people use their computers," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Our competitors will be trying to copy Tiger's more than 200 new features and innovations for years to come."
David Pogue of the New York Times writes that the new OS "is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating system prowling the earth."
"Tiger" is now available at Apple's stores for USD $129, while the Server version 10.4 "Tiger" is priced at USD $499.
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