WWDC: Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to developers
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 9, 2008 at 5:00pm
Apple is previewing Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) at this week’s Worldwide Developer Conference. It will include out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is scheduled to ship in about a year.
“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”
He added that the update will be optimized for multi-core processors and enable “breakthrough amounts of RAM.” Also coming: a “modern media platform” with QuickTime X that “optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback.” Safari will also be receiving an optimized Javascript rendering engine that will purportedly increase performance by 53 percent.
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Mac Hammer Says:
“In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”
If this is true, then don’t charge me for 10.6! If you are just fixing the things that they screwed up in my life with 10.5, then “Snow Leopard” should be 10.5.7!!! Not to mention the ding my career took for insisting that Leopard Server was going to be the answer to all of our collaboration problems. I’m just this close to buying a freakin’ Exchange server! If the iPhone is going to play better with Exchange than it does Apple’s own hardware, then why the hell shouldn’t we?
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Posted on June 09, 2008