Always fun to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth…
Apple WWDC '07: What's new in Leopard and how it will affect your life
Today’s Apple WWDC keynote event brought us a great insight to the future of Mac OS X Leopard, and it actually looks pretty exciting. Jobs’ 10-point keynote highlighted the new and improved Finder, the desktop manager Spaces, the automatic back up utility Time Machine, some great collaboration tools built into iChat, among several other updates.
Hit the jump for an overview of the new features and a rundown of how they may change the way you work on your Mac (and your Windows box, if Safari piques your interest).
Whats new in Leopard
Stacks – Like a Start menu for your Mac
Quickly preview different file types in Finder with Quick Look
A quick look at Quick Look
The surprisingly good iChat improvements
Bootcamp installed by default
Core animation is beautiful
Safari 3.0 with XP and Vista support
Manage multiple desktops with Spaces
Create your own web widgets with WebClip
Time Machine
Games
I left out the new Finder features, since Gina covered them in excellent detail here.
As you can see, while WWDC didn’t have a lot to show on the new hardware front, there are a lot of interesting new features on their way in Leopard. Some are plain eye candy, while others (like the new Finder, Spaces, Time Machine, iChat, etc.) actually hold a lot of promise for improving your productivity.
