Yeah, Gil seems to do a pretty decent job. W/regard to advertising, check out the "Mission Impossible" commericals. Quite good, and they feature clips from the movie, featuring PowerBooks, explosions (no, not PowerBook battery explosions! :)
>>> Releasing a new interrim software update near the end of the year... bringing some of the nice features of System 8 to Mac and PowerMac Desktops BEFORE THE YEAR 2000. <<<
This is one thing that I _don't_ especially agree with. It's going to be a lot of work for them to put stuff like a Copland interface on something like MacOS 7.7, and it'll just create more hassles for us developer types. What they probably _should_ do is release stuff like QT 2.5, OT 1.5, and stuff like that for Mac OS 7.7...
However, many Copland features would be better left for when they have the proper architecture, since Copland provides a lot of new features with regard to user interface. From what I've seen so far, it's greatly improved, but it will break some stuff.