At the WWDC ‘07 (Apple WorldWide Developer Conference, 11-15.6.2007) Steve Jobs held a keynote to the developers. Steve revealed 10 new features about the upcoming Mac OS X operating system ‘Leopard‘.
- New Desktop: 3D-look, stacks, transparent and finally no more brushed metal, but a consistent new look instead.
- New Finder: New look, new sidebar, search built-in, etc…
- Quick Look: Documents can be looked without opening the application, even full-screen.
- Leopard fully 64-bit: First mainstream OS to go fully 64-bit. Speed improvements.
- Core Animation: Looks nice.
- Boot Camp: Integrated to Leopard, works like Parallels & VMWare. Apple is working closely with Parallels and VMWare.
- Spaces: Nice way to handle multiple desktops.
- Dashboard: New Movie Times-widget and the web clip we’ve seen before.
- iChat: new AAC-Low Delay codec, tabbed chats, photo booth effects, iChat theatre, and backdrops.
- Time Machine: Automated, works even over wireless.
Only one version of Leopard ($129). (Not like 7 different versions of Vista.)

Safari on Windows.
Public beta released today. Twice as fast as IE. (Sounds great to me. iTunes is already on of the most popular apps in the windows platform.)

iPhone and the developer apps.
No SDK for developers. Instead apps can be introduced using the newest web standards. iPhone has a full Safari engine and the apps can be done to look and feel almost the same like the built-in apps. (I think this approach can work and it’s sounds interesting.)

Also EA will be back on developing games for the Mac. Big game releases expected on July. Biggest games will be released at the same time for all the platforms (PC, Mac, PS3, XBOX 360). (Great news, but I’m not happy until I see Konami developing a Mac version of PES!)

[Updated: June 12th, 2007. 13:45]

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