Leopard still on schedule

[Stevamundo]

From my sources I gather that April is the month for release. April showers bring May uh... Leopards?

However Apple hasn't even revealed Leopard's secrets yet. Are they going to or they're just let their customers discover them?

It would be kind of funny if Apple came with a competition “Discover all of the Leopard's Top Secrets for a chance to win a trip to Hawaii!”

 

[Discerptor]

After using and loving Quicksilver, my to wish for Leopard is adding actions to Spotlight. I like Spotlight's searching capabilities better than Quicksilver's, but I like the actions too much to use it over Quicksilver. If it had those, though, I would be a very happy camper not in need of running a separate app for that.

 

[rukind2]

Lots of speculation as seen in this piece...Here is more from Crave.

Digitimes is reporting that the next release of Mac OS X, code-named Leopard, will not ship until October of this year as Apple works to ensure compatibility with Windows Vista.


Apple showed off an automatic backup feature called Time Machine the last time it previewed Leopard, last June.

Sounds a little hard to believe, but the report says that with the inclusion of Boot Camp inside Leopard, Apple wants to make sure that Mac owners will be able to run Vista and Leopard on the same machine. Boot Camp, currently in beta, allows Mac users with Intel's chips to run Windows XP on their systems. Apple plans to include a final version of Boot Camp with Leopard.

Other popular Mac applications, such as iTunes, are still not fully compatible with Vista. And there have been problems reported with third-party drivers from companies like Nvidia that didn't work properly when confronted with Vista. But would Apple really delay the next release of its operating system to ensure compatibility with Vista, which is only being used by a fraction of PC users at present?

Apple has said it expects to ship Leopard this spring. Spring started this week, and ends just after Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference wraps up in June.

 

[MBasile]

hasn't apple already denied the myth that Leopard was being delayed and confirmed that it would be released this spring?

 

[Kash]

Come on guys, we had a thread on this just three days ago:

Leopard still on schedule

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Come on guys, we had a thread on this just three days ago:

Leopard still on schedule

Which is why it got merged with that thread.

 

[MacHeadCase]

From my sources I gather that April is the month for release. April showers bring May uh... Leopards?

Mac OS X Leopard nearing 'final candidate' according to MacNN.

Apple's Mac OS X Leopard -- which circulated to select developers -- is nearing completion, according to one analyst report. Shaw Wu of American Technology Research says the developer builds of Leopard indicate that the company is on track to ship the next generation operating system in the "spring" time frame, which runs from March 20th through June 20th. ...

 

[wheels5894]

Well I am waiting to buy my fuirst max, a mac mini I think, and would like to getthe latest OS to save buyiong it later. Mind, I suppose Tiger is thought to be pretty good so I suppose I could go with it with the mac min and if I get on well with it get Leopard on an iMac later.

 

[flilow06]

Come on guys, we had a thread on this just three days ago:

Leopard still on schedule

So much for "still on schedule" according to official news on Apple's website... :radioacti

October it is.

 

[girgroupie47]

Apple Statement

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

Taken from the apple site http://www.apple.com/hotnews/