Nov 5th, 2009 - The Register
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Steve Jobs has been crowned CEO of the Decade by the preeminent house organ of US corporate shillery, Fortune magazine.
Love him or hate him - or both - Jobs has earned the honor.
The article recounts Jobs's series of canny moves during the early part of this decade: streamlining Apple's discombobulated product line, pulling the plug on the cash-hemorrhaging Newton, snuffing out the money-losing Mac-clone experiment, shepherding the genre-transforming iMac, redefining music marketing with the iPod and iTunes Store, replacing Apple's creaky operating system with the (eventually stable) Unix-based Mac OS X, creating destination shopping with the 276-strong squadron of Apple retail stores, and more.
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9:34Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
By request, here is when Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X for the first time ever. I edited the video myself to show the very best moments of the presentation & split it up into 3 parts on account of youtube's bogus time limit.
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9:53Mac OS X Server Intro (Full Length)
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