Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Previewed at WWDC 2006

TidBITS has an axcellent article reviewing what when know of 10
.5 Leopard—TidBITS: mac os X 10.5 Leopard Previewed at WWDC 2006

“First Issue Served by Our New System·Apple Releases Security Update 2006-004·More, Less, and No Information on Running Windows on a Mac·Wireless Driver Hack Could Target Macs and Windows·TypeIt4Me Returns Again, Again·AOL Drops Fees, Offers 5 GB Free Storage·Mac Pro, xserve Round Out Macintosh High End·Take Control News/07-Aug-06·Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/07-Aug-06At Apple’s 2006 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today, steve jobs teased the assembled developers with details of mac os X 10.5 Leopard, the next major release of the Mac operating system that is due to ship sometime in “spring” (which we in the United States consider to be roughly the March to May 2007 time period). Jobs offered overviews of ten new or improved features to be found in Leopard, and coyly referred to other “top secret” features that weren’t going to be shown so as to not encourage copying by Microsoft’s Windows Vista developers (who received a fair bit of competitive ribbing at WWDC). Developer preview versions of Leopard were given to registered attendees of WWDC; we’re concentrating here on the promised new features that end users will see, so those interested in Xcode 3.0, Leopard’s 64-bit application support, and new CoreAnimation framework will want to look elsewhere for immediate details…”
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