After a week when Geoff sweated in Seattle heat while Tonya and Adam sweated in Boston heat, we turn our attention to the Macintosh world, with Geoff's reaction to a Wall Street Journal article about Microsoft and Apple, news about Mac OS 8, and Apple's Runtime for Java. We flesh out the issue with Tonya and Adam's impressions and extensive product notes from last week's Macworld Expo.

Topics:

• MailBITS/12-Aug-96
• The Enemy of Microsoft's Enemy is...?
• Macworld Expo Superlatives
• HTMLbits From the Expo
• Fire In The Belly
• Milling Around the Internet

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