Apple Introduces AppleWorks 6

MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 5, 2000—Apple® today introduced AppleWorks® 6, adding more than 100 features and a stunning new user interface to its award-winning productivity application.


AppleWorks 6 is an integrated word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation application. New features include: an easy-to-use presentation environment where users can quickly create multimedia slides that integrate text, tables and digital elements such as QuickTime™ moviesand iMovies™; more than 150 professionally designed templates; 50 new fonts; and built-in Internet content capabilities that allow users to access more than 25,000 high-quality clip-art images.


“AppleWorks 6 makes it simple to create professional-looking documents from the classroom or the living room,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “A new user interface and easy-to-use presentation environment make AppleWorks 6 a must-have application.”


System Requirements, Pricing & Availability
For the Mac, AppleWorks 6 requires an Apple computer with a PowerPC processor, at least 24 MB of physical RAM with virtual memory turned on, a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive and an Internet connection for accessing the online digital images. AppleWorks 6 runs on Mac® OS 8 and Mac OS 9and is expected to be available in early February from Apple Authorized Resellers and The Apple Store™ (www.apple.com) for an estimated retail price of US$79.


Windows 95 and Windows 98 versions are expected to ship in spring 2000.


Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is now recommitted to its original mission to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world.


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Apple
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Matt Hutchison
Apple
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