"If you can believe what some of the online tech prognosticators tell you, Apple's real 'Top Secret' plan is to have Mac OS 10.5 Leopard out by Macworld Expo in January, or perhaps shortly thereafter. If true, it would give Apple a chance to trounce Windows Vista, at least in times of mind share as opposed to market share, assuming the latter indeed comes out around the same time. I think some of the folks who expect an early release ought to reconsider what they're smoking or drinking."
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So after years of forcing users to pay $99 per year to backup (and if you're lucky, restore) functionality, Apple finally realises to supply it with the OS?
Big whoop.
MS versioning.
Runs on local machine by accessing properties. MS mentions it in a blog somewhere.
Apple versioning.
Needs a second volume to run on; Apple holds a press conference.
So far Leopard doesn't have anything really compelling over Tiger or Vista, since I can buy a cheaper (and probably more reliable) solution from a third party. All I'll be missing is the 'time warp' effect that Jobs used to wow the faithful. This 'big surprise' Jobs eluded to, had better be spectacular.
Edited 2006-10-14 06:46
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I'm a little curious about what exactly you're expecting. Leopard will be released a year and a half after Tiger. It's probably quite unreasonable to expect a similar magnitude of changes between Tiger and Leopard as between XP and Vista. This is especially true if you consider that Vista is a major shakeup release (big new UI features) for Windows, while OS X 10.0 was the major shakeup release for MacOS.
By the looks of it, Leopard is a bigger, better, faster Tiger. There are a few major user-visible changes, namely Spaces and Time Machine (which are non-trivial, the utility of these features is entirely a function of how good the UI for them is), and a lot of under-the-hood and developer-oriented improvements: 64-bit support, vastly improved Spotlight performance, Objective-C 2.0, XCode 3.0, Xray (which looks awesome), much-improved OpenGL stack (with the first and probably not last use of LLVM in OS X), etc. In addition to these, there is still probably at least a couple of major features that haven't been announced yet, if history is any guide.
Considering that the time gap between Tiger and Leopard is less than the gap between Service Packs 1 and 2 for XP, that's a pretty substantial list of improvements.
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2006-06-01
"On August 7, 2006 the Mac community was twisted into a tightly coiled ball waiting to erupt in a spastic frenzy of Mac love when Steve Jobs previewed Leopard to the world. At 3:00PM EST on August 7 the same members of the Mac community were despondent, nothing seemed like a must-have or a Mac-only thing. Beefed up iChat with green screen effects? Yes, soon you can upload your Daily Show on location, knock off bits to youtube and share them with the world! Forget that Leopard is faster, 64 bit, Intellifiied and the like, those are under the hood things, we’re Mac users, we like our cool out in front where we can show it off to the world! Most disappointing preview of an Mac OS ever! Steve, really, go slap some folks around and make it better, we need more shiny!"
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