Mac OS X 10.5, iLife '07, iWork '07 as early as March
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 10.2.2007
Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March, sources say.
Alongside the release of Version 10.5, code-named Leopard, will be new versions of Apple's consumer software suites, iLife '07 and iWork '07, which saw their release date pushed back due to expanded feature sets in both the applications. In addition, sources confirm that iLife '07 and iWork '07 will both contain numerous features dependent on Mac OS X 10.5, but whether Apple has made the unlikely and drastic move of completely axing support for earlier operating systems is less certain.
As late as mid-2006, Apple had planned to release iLife '07 and iWork '07 in January at Macworld Expo, as the company has done in previous years. But discontent over the quality of some of the new additions to the software, including Apple's first standalone spreadsheet application, saw the release pushed back. At the same time, according to sources, Apple made the decision to wrap Leopard-specific features into the new iLife and iWork suites, originally planned for future releases of the software, possibly to further encourage sales of all three products.
One such feature: The new iLife and iWork suites are reported to take advantage of Leopard's Core Animation, which simplifies the development of animation-rich software, according to another source.
To date, Apple has made no official mention of iLife '07 and iWork '07 and has only gone so far as to say Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will be released in the Spring. The new operating system went without mention at Macworld Expo/San Francisco, but during Apple's recent first-quarter financial earnings conference call, executives reiterated the Spring release date.
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Comments(6)
$pple can go and $uck themselves.
you drmintosh piece of $hit.
you guys have seen os x just as much as you have seen a naked woman.
can't discuss either.
grow
up.
if the idiots of the world want to use a cheap, inferior, misbehaved, bug-ridden, virus-riddled,
security-challenged, mega-bloated os like windows, let them. the mark of wisdom and intelligence is bucking
the crowd and going with true quality. this recovering windows addict has seen the light, and i am cured of
bill gates.
well said fed-up-with-ms'-crap...
let them enjoy their windows, poor things.
forgive them, they
don't know any better.
a hearty amen to that!
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37522 (only took em many years to recognize it)
too many mac users are hypocrites for a couple of reasons at least. one, they decry the drm in vista/windows
yet apple has had drm for ages and has only increased it lately. not to mention they have exactly the same
restrictions concerning blu-ray and hd-dvd playback with regard to hdcp. all the "sky is falling and vista is
100% drmd" applies to o$x as well.
two, so many mac users have xp/vista installed on their
pseudo-pc's after $pple "allowed" windows to be installed with boot camp. if windows is so terrible, why
does $pple "allow" it to be installed and 2, why are so many users installing it?
so if idiots
want to bend over and let $pple ram then in the ass with a drm'd os and its hardware dongle (aka mac
hardware), running an os which has very little native applications that $pple and its users feel compelled to
use window$, hypocritcally calling windows drm'd while they are far more restricted in every sense of the
word... who are we to argue?
$crew $pple
By SF on 10.02.2007 - 19:02